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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Pilot
After living a life of peace John and Sarah once again keep running, leaving behind their life and the people that loved them. A new terminator is sent back to protect John and one is sent back to terminate him. In order to prevent his death and judgment day, John, Cameron, and Sarah hide in the one place nobody will ever think to find them.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x1 Production Number: 276022 Airdate: Sunday January 13th, 2008 Special Airtime: 08:00 pm Alternate Airdates:
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Recap
The episode begins in Sarah's dream. She is racing to save her son John from a Terminator, but she fails and he is killed. She awakens from the nightmare in bed with her fiancee, Charley. The nightmare has convinced her that they are no longer safe and that they have to move on. John is upset because they have been there for 2 years with no problems. He accuses her of leaving because she is afraid of commitment to Charley...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
In the original unaired pilot, the first shooting took place in a school. The network forced them to change that scene because of the Virginia Tech school shooting. Although this show had the original pilot filmed before the shootings even happened.
This episode scored 18.29 million viewers.
Agent Ellison is named after s.f. writer Harlan Ellision. Ellison sued James Cameron for copyright infringement for "borrowing" the ideas of time travel and humanoid robots from his Outer Limits stories "Soldier" and "Demon With a Glass Hand", respectively. Ellison succeeded in getting a credit in The Terminator movie.
Locations:
West Fork, Nebraska - August 24, 1999 - Sarah and John are living with her fiancée, Charley Dixon.
Red Valley, New Mexico - September 6, 1999 - Cameron finally locates John Connor.
Los Angeles, California - September 9, 1999 - Dyson residence
Los Angeles, California - September 10, 1999 - Security Trust bank
Los Angeles, California - September, 2007 - 105 freeway
West Fork, Nebraska - August 24, 1999 - Sarah and John are living with her fiancée, Charley Dixon.
Red Valley, New Mexico - September 6, 1999 - Cameron finally locates John Connor.
Los Angeles, California - September 9, 1999 - Dyson residence
Los Angeles, California - September 10, 1999 - Security Trust bank
Los Angeles, California - September, 2007 - 105 freeway
Cameron is from the year 2027.
Cameron reveals that the Skynet Missile Defense System goes online April 19, 2011, followed by a nuclear apocalypse on April 21, 2011.
Episode Quotes
Cameron: (to John) Come with me if you want to live.
Cromartie: Is there a John Reese?
John: Here.
John: Here.
Sarah: (to Cameron) We can't keep running... I'll lose my boy. He'll leave me... he'll leave me.
visual:John, Sarah and Cameron arrive at the bank.
John: Do you have like an account here?
Cameron: Safety deposit box.
Sarah: When did you open that?
Cameron: 1963.
John: Do you have like an account here?
Cameron: Safety deposit box.
Sarah: When did you open that?
Cameron: 1963.
Sarah: What have you done?
Cameron: You want to find Skynet? You want to stop Skynet? This is the way.
Sarah: You don't know who builds it!
Cameron: No, but we know where and we know when. We can go kill it before it's born. We can stop running, stay in one place, fight.
Cameron: You want to find Skynet? You want to stop Skynet? This is the way.
Sarah: You don't know who builds it!
Cameron: No, but we know where and we know when. We can go kill it before it's born. We can stop running, stay in one place, fight.
John: What model are you? Are you new, you seem... different.
Cameron: (eats a potato chip) I am.
Cameron: (eats a potato chip) I am.
Episode Goofs
The series has informed that the pilot episode took place two years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day. However in Terminator 2 the show was set in 1995 and Judgment Day was set for 1997. The pilot took place in 1999 which would be four years after Terminator 2.
Cultural References
Agent James Ellison: (Speaking to Charley Dixon, Sarah's fiancée, about John Connor) Does he strike you that way, leader of a scrappy band of rebels, Luke Skywalker type?
Luke Skywalker is the hero of the Star Wars series of films, an unassuming young man burdened with the responsibility of saving the empire.
Luke Skywalker is the hero of the Star Wars series of films, an unassuming young man burdened with the responsibility of saving the empire.
Other Episode Crew
| • Executive Producer | David Nutter | Andrew Vajna | Mario Kassar | James Middleton | Joel Michaels | Josh Friedman (1) |
| • Producer | Charles Goldstein |
| • Associate Producer | Aaron Miller (2) |
| • Production Designer | Scott Murphy (2) | Christopher Brown (1) |
| • Editor | Paul Karasick |
| • Casting | Lisa Beach | Sarah Katzman |
| • Unit Production Manager | Leanne Moore |
| • First Assistant Director | John G. Scotti |
| • Second Assistant Director | Amy Schmidt |
| • Music | Bear McCreary |
| • Music Editor | Tom Trafalski | Michael Baber |
| • Costume Designer | Julia Schklair |
| • Hairstylist | Lori Ann Baker (1) |
| • Set Decorator | Elaine O'Donnell |
| • Property Master | Scott A. Buckwald |
| • Director of Photography | Bill Roe |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Joel Kramer |
| • Sound Mixer | Darryl L. Frank |
| • Special Makeup Effects Artist | Robert Hall (1) |
| • Visual Effects Supervisor | James Lima |
| • Special Effects Supervisor | Steve Galich |
| • Visual Effects | Zoic Studios |
| • Second Unit Director | Joel Kramer |
| • Based On Characters Created By | James Cameron | Gail Anne Hurd |
| • Makeup Artist | Frieda Valenzuela |
| • Location Casting | Toni Cobb Brock | Shari Rhodes |
| • Developed For Television By | Josh Friedman (1) |
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