Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

In 1999, four years after T2, Sarah and John are in hiding when the Terminator Cromartie shows up to kill the boy. He's saved by Cameron, a reprogrammed Terminator who looks like a teenage girl, sent back by future John. The three jump forward to 2007, where they learn Judgment Day wasn't stopped, only delayed. Now they hunt the building blocks of a future Skynet, like the Turk, a chess computer built by Andy Goode. Derek Reese, a soldier from the future, and FBI agent James Ellison, who slowly realizes Sarah isn't crazy, both help and complicate the mission. Sarah also fears she has cancer. The season ends with Cromartie killing about 20 FBI agents and Cameron caught in a Jeep explosion.

1. ReferenceCameron, like the director

   Summer Glau's Terminator is named Cameron, a nod to James Cameron. Glau hadn't seen the films before she was cast.

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2. Behind the scenesThe strike cut the season

   Fox ordered 13 episodes, but the 2007–08 writers' strike cut the season down to 9.

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3. ReferenceMiles Dyson's former assistant

   Andy Goode, who builds the chess computer called the Turk, used to work as Miles Dyson's assistant, the Cyberdyne engineer from Terminator 2.

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4. ReferenceAnother Reese in the family

   Derek Reese, a Resistance soldier from the future, is the brother of Kyle Reese, the soldier from The Terminator.

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5. Behind the scenesFollows T2, skips T3

   Creator Josh Friedman treated the show as an alternate timeline: it picks up after Terminator 2 and sets Terminator 3 aside.

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