Allison from Palmdale (29 Sep. 2008)

Another malfunction causes Cameron to believe that she is actually a human from the future named Allison. Sarah accompanies her pregnant landlady to the hospital. Ellison continues to contemplate Catherine Weaver's job offer.

Director:

Charles Beeson

Writers:

Josh Friedman (developed for television by), Toni Graphia,

Stars:

Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Lena Headey	...	Sarah Connor
Thomas Dekker	...	John Connor
Summer Glau	...	Cameron Phillips / Allison Young
Shirley Manson	...	Catherine Weaver
Richard T. Jones	...	James Ellison
Busy Philipps	...	Kacy Corbin
Leah Pipes	...	Jody
Jon Huertas	...	Trevor
Jillian Armenante	...	Rita
Fay Wolf	...	Agent Lila Ellison
Mackenzie Brooke Smith	...	Savannah Weaver (as Mackenzie Smith)
Garvin Funches	...	Police Officer
Enrico Natale	...	Customer
Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez	...	Desk Sergeant (as Roberto Sanchez)
Jeff Leaf	...	Helmut

Storyline

Kacy has complications with her pregnancy and Sarah takes her to the hospital. There she meets the baby's father, a LAPD detective. Meanwhile, Cameron has yet more problems when she draws a memory blank while shopping for groceries. She takes up with a young street person, Jody. While together, Cameron has a series of flashbacks recalling her interrogation of a young woman, Allison Young, who resembles Cameron to a tee. We learn of the reason for the lookalikes and Cameron's one-time mission. Elsewhere, Agent Ellison is still considering Catherine Weaver's job offer and asks his ex-wife, also an FBI agent, to do a background check on her.

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Plot Keywords:

hospital | interrogation | brushing hair | little girl | human in a cage | 

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 September 2008 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Blondie Street, Columbia/Warner Bros. Ranch - 411 North Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bartleby Company, C-2 Pictures, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Sarah brings Kacy magazines in the hospital, they are already sitting on her bed the frame before Sarah places them there.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Cameron Phillips: Earth to Cameron.
John Connor: What?
Cameron Phillips: Are you okay? Cause if you're gonna try and kill me again, I wouldn't mind a head start.
John Connor: If I was going to try to kill you again, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

User Reviews

Art

It is worth watching all twelve previous episodes of this show just to watch this one. Most of Season 1 was fairly well done, but not brilliant. A couple episodes were bad, and a couple were good. The three episodes of season 2 that precede this one are decent, and not necessarily boring (the premiere being the exception, in that it was better than the others). In any case, this episode is the one I consider to be the best in the whole series. Even if all the other episodes were complete crap, it would be worth watching the whole show just for this one episode.

I don't know what happened to the show for this episode, but whatever they did, it worked. This is what I wish the whole show had been like. Sadly, only a few of the other episodes measured up to the quality of this one.