Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point - Recap

James Ellison is digging with a shovel. Suddenly, a face appears in the dirt, it is Cromartie. He awakens from a dream to hear something outside. He grabs his gun and flashlight from the nightstand and looks out the window to see Cameron pacing his back yard with a piece of steel bar in her hand. Every few paces she thrusts the bar down into the ground. He illuminates her with his flashlight and she stops, telling him to go back to bed.

Sarah and Derek break into the corporate offices of Dakara Systems that Sarah thinks might have something to do with the evolution of the Turk into Skynet, based on having the three dots incorporated into their logo. They remove the hard drives from all of the computers and return home so John can analyze them. He finds nothing and he feels that Dakara Systems is a dead end. Cameron returns home and announces that Cromartie is not buried in Ellison's yard.

The next morning, finds John has pulled an all nighter. When Sarah comes downstairs he tells her he has changed his mind about Dakara and has prepared some background material for Sarah to use as a potential investor into the Dakara start-up.

Jesse comes out of the shower in her hotel room to find Derek waiting with a gun. He has found all of the surveillance photos she has taken of him, Sarah, John and Cameron and he demands an answer. Jesse tells him she was sent back to prevent Cameron's influence from growing over John. She says John is making questionable decisions in the future and she was sent into the past to save him. She then asks Derek why he was sent into the past but he refuses to tell her and says he has to think about her story.

Ellison arrives at Catherine Weaver's corporate headquarters Zeira Corp to find a crime scene. He speaks to the detective in charge and finds that a man has died working in his office over the weekend when power was lost and the office overheated. The man was Dr. Boyd Sherman.

Weaver explains to Ellison that Sherman was working for her company as a consultant on project Babylon, an artificial intelligence (AI) computer software project. When power was lost to the building, the AI program diverted all backup power to itself which resulted in Sherman's death.

Sarah and Cameron arrive at Dakara Systems to see two US Air Force officers leaving. In their meeting with the Akagis, a father and son who own Dakara, Sarah learns that Dakara has been vandalized the previous night by what they think is corporate spies. Sarah learns that the Air Force is spreading money around to corporations doing research and development of AI systems.

John goes to see Riley at her foster home and is surprised when he sees the foster parents playing happily with several foster kids, not the image Riley had portrayed to him. He tells her that while they were in Mexico, he had promised to explain everything that happened to them, but he now tells her that there is nothing he can explain. She says it is okay, he can just sit with her but he leaves.

At home, Sarah and Cameron talk about their visit to Dakara. Cameron is convinced they are not part of the Turk evolution because the chief engineer does not play chess, he plays Go, an ancient Chinese board game. In addition, they are lacking in funds and have a two week deadline set by the Air Force. Sarah thinks otherwise and is convinced this is the company because the three dots in the logo match the three dots written in blood on their basement wall.

Riley is shopping for dresses when Jesse approaches, asking what she called about. They talk and we discover that Riley has been working undercover for Jesse all this time to get close to John. Riley is uncertain whether she can continue but Jesse persuades he that she can.

John and Derek return home and Derek tries to convince John that the three dots concept has just gotten into Sarah's head because it has now gotten into his head.

Sarah meets with Alex Akagi the next day and he says he has an agreement with the Japanese firm that won the Air Force sponsored chess tournament for AI software. They have a microchip prototype they are willing to license to Dakara for testing. He needs half a million dollars as a deposit.

Ellison is being given a tour of the Babylon project in the basement of Zeira Corp. The engineer Murch explains the massive server farm creates tremendous heat, and would fry without the air conditioning. Ellison asks if Murch knew the story of the original Babylon, which was a wonder but that God destroyed it. Murch says that God tried to destroy their Babylon with the power outage, but the AI system managed to save itself. Ellison wonders if the AI knew the consequences of it's act of self-preservation would cost a human life and Murch scoffs.

Sarah and Cameron review their assets to see if they have the half million that Dakara needs. Cameron says they do, if they use everything. She asks Sarah if she is certain and Sarah says that certainty is a luxury they do not have.

Sarah and Cameron have dinner with the Akagis and the representative of the Japanese company with the microchip. The dinner is formal and Cameron surprises everyone when she stands and toasts their good fortune in fluent Japanese. Payment is made and Dakara receives the chip prototype.

Riley returns to her foster home upset. She looses her cool at the family antics and tells them nothing matters, that they are all going to be bleached skulls.

Back at Dakara, Xander Akagi plugs the chip into his system and tests his software on it. The test fails and he doesn't understand why. Cameron examines the chip and declares it is an older chip and not what they paid for. Alex Akagi tells Sarah that the representative that sold them the chip was with the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Sarah realizes Akagi paid the Yakuza to steal the prototype.

Ellison reports to Weaver that they have the facts of Sherman's death, but not the intent. She tells him to ask John Henry itself, the name of the Babylon AI program. Ellison speaks with John Henry, which communicates via imagery. John Henry shows Ellison the video of Sherman's death. His questioning reveals that John Henry has not been taught ethics, that it was not taught to value human life so it had no qualms in saving itself at the expense of Dr. Sherman. Ellison suggests that Weaver start teaching John Henry ethics by starting with the ten Commandments.

Sarah, Derek and Cameron track down the Japanese representative. He turns out to be an actor hired by Akagi. Sarah returns to Dakara and starts beating Alex asking for answers. Alex confesses he pulled the scam to get money to make sure his son was taken care of.

Jesse returns home to find Derek waiting for her. Derek tells Jesse he is John Connor's uncle and he is there to stop Skynet from happening. He then asks her if there is anything else she is holding back and she does not tell him about Riley.

Weaver tells Ellison that she is not qualified to teach John Henry the ten Commandments, that was why she hired Sherman. She takes him downstairs to a room where Cromartie sits in a chair, and he calls himself John Henry.

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