This was the last episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" before the season finale, and because of that the development of poor Special Agent Ellison was put into overdrive. Sure, there were other happenings - the return of the Emo John Connor and continued posturing by BAG, who wouldn't stop bleeding. We also had some references to Terminator 2 by one seriously wacked-out therapist and some ballet action by Cameron. Let's start with the most interesting of the bunch.

Ellison had a very, very, very bad day. He thought he was all slick, stealing the T-888 hand out of evidence before Cameron did, then tracking down her shrink from Pescadero Mental Hospital in his cozy mountain hideaway. Things went from good day to bad day pretty quick for him as he was promptly, drugged, tortured, and then left to burn, in that order. He would have met his fiery fate if it wasn't for the timely arrival of Sarah Connor who serves up a knuckle sandwich before making off with the hand and dragging Ellison's tied-up ass out of a burning house. Oh yeah, and Ellison is some kind of true believer in God or something. Stay tuned on this one; he might be a tad unstable. Ellison gains his revenge in the end when he locks up his torturer into Sarah's old cell. Don't you just love it when a good story arc comes together?

Speaking of the shrink, a.k.a. Mr. Silverman, a.k.a. Bruce Davison, it was a very good job playing some shady crazy torturing psychopath. Seems like everyone who was there that night in "Terminator 2" when John busted his mom out of Pescadero believes in machines and the judgement day thing. Maybe there is some cult of Sarah out there? Where do I sign up?

Cameron was on missions the whole episode. She's like a child, and she gets into trouble unless she has something to do. So here you go Cameron, go find the hand and then go find the Russian who stole the Turk. Good job, Cameron! As a prize for a good job, here's some motor oil. Cameron does end up tracking down the Russian and gets him and his sister killed by some hard ass mafia types, but not before getting a lead on the Turk and learning that she loves ballet. So much in fact that she closes out the episode in tights doing some ballet stuff with Brian Austin Green looking on, who is not completely disgusted but somewhat amused.

Sarah and John and Derek all had some convergent issues to work through as well. While Sarah was poking around Ellison's sparsely she found some of her greatest hits - her loony bin files and some videos of her when she was super crazy. On one of the tapes, the one she conveniently brings back to the bat cave, is the one where she signs John over to the state. Of course, John just happens to watch it. Cue, Emo John. He's soooo sad that his crazy mommy didn't want him. It hasn't been stated enough: this kid turns into the one dude who saves mankind? Um, yeah.

Brian Austin Green is all pissy, all the time. First he wants to send Cameron on chores, then he doesn't. Then he wants to clean guns, then he wants to walk around. Make a choice, guy. One choice he did make though was to bleed the whole damn episode. He and Cameron shared a moment, however. She appears to remember him from the future. Will anything come of that? Probably not. She's a good little toaster. Seriously bled through every shirt he was wearing in every scene until the last one, significance to that? Search me, faithful readers, I have no idea.

So, next week is the season finale. Excited? What did you think of the season? Looking forward to the second season? Will there be a second season? Make a comment!

Recap by Larry Grodsky
Starpulse contributing writer