Sarah, John, and Cameron must get new identities in order to
operate in 2007; Sarah learns she may not have long to live.
The title of this episode comes from the Ancient Greek words for
"know thyself".
Didja Notice?
At 49:15 on the Blu-ray, a
Vons supermarket truck drives by on the freeway.
At 54:13
on the Blu-ray, the "brick" wall can be seen to flex a bit when
Cameron and the other Terminator hit with their bodies after
flying through the window. It's obviously a set piece.
Oddly, at 54:27
on the Blu-ray, there appears to be a mini-bike sitting in
a partially opened crate in the alleyway in the background.
Sarah carjacks a 1985
Yamaha FJ 1100 motorcycle at 55:03
on the Blu-ray.
The car that hits Cameron during the chase is a 2005
Chrysler
300 with CA license plate 2SAQ321. This plate has appeared
in a number of TV shows and movies and reappears on the
Sarah Connor Chronicles on a Ford pick-up in "Alpine
Fields" and "Desert Cantos".
Cameron tells Sarah that in the timeline she knows, Sarah
died December 4, 2005 of cancer. In the
Rise of the Machines
timeline, she died of leukemia in 1997. Why the difference
in dates?
In the first half of this episode, Sarah drives a 1988
Jeep
Cherokee with CA plate 3PCI258. The same
plate appears on a Chevy Venture driven by Sarah in "Samson
and Delilah" and a Chevy Blazer in
"Born to Run"! This license
plate has also appeared on Lost.
At 58:55
on the Blu-ray, a
Food 4
Less supermarket is seen the background.
Sarah tells Cameron she did military training with Enrique
Salceda outside of Oaxaca and that he trained John to shoot
rifles. She is probably referring to
Oaxaca City, the capital of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Enrique Salceda is the same Enrique the Connors went to for
help in the desert in
Judgment Day.
Enrique tells Sarah about a boxer from Cuernavaca named
Ricardo Lopez, "El Finito". Lopez is a real person.
Cuernavaca is capital of the Mexican state of Morelos.
Sarah goes to Enrique to get new identity papers, but he
informs her he is retired from all that and directs her to
his nephew, Carlos, who has taken over the family business.
Enrique is also said to have had a cousin named Carlos in
Infiltrator.
John states his cell phone number as 818-555-0147. "818" is
a Los Angeles area code.
The 555 prefix of the phone number is a
long-time convention in Hollywood TV and film.
Bored with sitting at home for days, John leaves the house
against his mother's wishes and decides to hang out at the
Valley Square Mall. This is a fictitious mall in Los
Angeles.
An Apple
TV unit is seen in the background at 1:03:18
on the Blu-ray.
At 1:03:21
on the Blu-ray, John is playing around on a
Dell
laptop in the computer store. The laptop is shown to be
running
Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. On it, he uses
an online search engine that appears to be called
LeSearchEngine; this is a fictitious search site.
The online newspaper article about the "bank heist" John,
Sarah, and Cameron were involved in in 1999 is from the
Los Angeles Sun and mentions the trio asking to see the
bank manager Sherwin Michaels. This references events in
"No One is Ever Safe",
but they did not meet any Sherwin Michaels in the episode;
there must have been a change in the script. The Los
Angeles Sun is a fictitious newspaper.
John also finds an article referencing his mother's former
fiancé, Charley Dixon, "City Honors Heroic EMTs", dated May
30, 2004. Charley is mentioned to have been an EMT in
"No One is Ever Safe".
At 1:05:21
on the Blu-ray, notice that the 1963 dedication plaque that was
on the outside of the
Security Trust of Los Angeles bank in
"No One is Ever Safe"
is in the same pile of debris at the metal recycling yard
that Cromartie's robotic body is in.
A sign at 1:05:34
on the Blu-ray
shows that the
metal recycling yard is F.N. Bros. Recycling. This is a
fictitious recycler in L.A.
A red 1977
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sits in Carlos' driveway when
Sarah and Cameron pull up.
Carlos tells Sarah that when Enrique saw the story about the
bank explosion and Sarah and John's alleged death 8 years
ago, he was drinking a bottle of Patrón.
Patrón is a brand of tequila.
The girl that Cameron imitates on Carlos' driveway is called
"Chola" in the end credits.
Chola is generally a somewhat derogatory term for a
Latin girl, so may be a nickname in this case.
The L.A. police car that pulls up to Carlos' house at
1:09:12 on the Blu-ray has the police motto "to protect and secure" on the
door. But the actual LAPD motto is "to protect and to
serve". The actor who plays the police officer (Rogers,
badge 3591) is Sasha Roiz, known to PopApostle readers as
Sam Adama on the TV series
Caprica.
The shoulder patch on his uniform does not appear to be one
actually worn by LAPD officers, though it does look to have
the reverse-emblem of the seal of the city of Los Angeles on
it. |
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Officer Rogers' shoulder patch |
Seal of the City of Los Angeles |
When Officer Rogers gets suspicious of Cameron hanging
around in Carlos' driveway, Sarah comes out and calls her
Jenny/Jennifer and pretends she's Cameron's mother to throw
him off the track.
The classic car on the street behind Sarah at 1:11:09
on the Blu-ray
appears to be a 1941
Chevrolet Special Deluxe.
Cameron implies she is not programmed to take orders from
either Sarah or the current, 15-year old, John.
Carlos and his gang have to explain to Sarah what the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were since she and
John skipped over that year in their time travel jump to
2007 at the end of
"No One is Ever Safe".
The car parked at Charley's house at 1:12:43
on the Blu-ray
is a
Mercedes-Benz 300 D with CA plate 1M8H450.
At 1:13:08
on the Blu-ray, some kind of pamphlet for the city of
Monrovia is seen on a desk in Charley's house.
The envelope John picks up at 1:13:12
on the Blu-ray
shows Charley and his
wife's address as 8223 Paper Street,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91372. The mail is from Union Credit
C., 751 CC Drive,
Wilmington, DE 87241. These both appear to be fictitious
addresses, as are
Union Credit C and the zip code 87241. Zip code 91372 belongs to
portions of Calabasas and Woodland Hills, CA, not Sherman
Oaks.
Sarah is beginning to get into the habit of referring to
Cameron as a "tin man". Besides the obvious reference to
Cameron being a cyborg, the Tin Man is a character in the
Oz books of L. Frank Baum.
Finding a hidden safe in a wall at the Resistance hideout in
2007, John enters the date of Judgment Day to open it. But
which Judgment Day does he enter? The date stated in
Judgment Day has
already passed without incident. If it's the new Judgment Day
of Cameron's timeline, what is the date? Cameron has not specifically
stated it yet, at least for the viewing audience (it's
possible she told him off camera).
The car Cameron lands on when Sarah pushes her body out the
window appears to be a 1970's
Dodge
Dart.
At 1:19:34
on the Blu-ray, someone with a bar code tattoo on their forearm
watches as Sarah, John, and Cameron run down the alleyway.
The tattoo implies it is someone from the future who spent
time in a Skynet work camp. A later episode reveals it to be
Derek Reese.
Finding a pouch of diamonds in the Resistance hideout, John
apparently tells Cameron that diamonds are a girl's best
friend. "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song from
the 1949 musical play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by
Jule Styne and Leo Robin.
At 1:20:49
on the Blu-ray, the roadside clean-up worker is watching the
World Shopping Channel. This is a fictitious cable channel.
Sarah confronts Enrique with a
Smith
& Wesson 4506 pistol.
Enrique admits he became an informant when he was sent to
Lompoc a few years ago. This must be a reference to the
Federal Correctional Complex located near
Lompoc, CA.
Cameron shoots Enrique with a
Glock 17
pistol.
Cameron uses the Spanish "El hablador" as a description of
Enrique. It means "he talked".
As part of his new identity, John is said to be from
Lawrence, Kansas. Cameron states that Lawrence is 25
miles west of Kansas City; this is roughly accurate, as the
crow flies.
Sarah and John's names in their new identities are Sarah
Baum and John Baum. Obviously, the last name comes from
Oz author
L. Frank Baum. Additionally, Cameron has a new identity as
John's sister, Cameron Baum.
Notice that John's fake birth certificate indicates he was
born 7-22-1992. This would make him 15 in 2007, accounting
for his age due to the time jump (since he was actually born
in 1985).
Cameron's driver's license shows an address of 9836 Maple
Drive, North Hollywood, CA 91601. This appears to be a
fictitious address, though the zip code does match that of
North Hollywood.
John and Cameron register for school at Campo de Cahuenga
High School. This is a fictitious high school, named for the
real world
Campo de Cahuenga Ranch historic site.
Sarah's ending narration states that John once told her that
"know thyself and thou shall know all the mysteries of the
gods and of the universe" is inscribed on the Temple of
Apollo. A phrase approximately this in Ancient Greek was
inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at the sanctuary of Delphi
until is was destroyed by Roman emperor Theodosius I as a
pagan temple in the name of Christianity.
Sarah goes to the Oncology Department of Pacific Medical
West Center to get a cancer screening after learning of the
cause of her death from Cameron. This appears to be a
fictitious medical center.
Unanswered Questions
Why is Cromartie's metal skull not still covered in flesh
when the road worker finds it? It should still have had
flesh on it after being severed from his body in 1999 or it
wouldn't have been able to travel through time.
How did Cromartie's body wind up at the
metal recycling yard? Realistically, the FBI or other
authorities would have performed a fairly extensive
examination of the blown up bank vault in 1999 (especially
considering escaped mental patient and fugitive Sarah Connor
was involved!) and would have found the body! It makes
absolutely no sense that the body would have been scooped up with
standard debris in the aftermath of the explosion. It also
seems odd that the dedication plaque would be among the
debris where the robotic body wakes up. The "explosion" was only
a burst of plasma and electricity from Sarah's plasma gun
striking the Terminator; obviously the body was not
destroyed (as seen here), so would the bank walls have come
down, bringing the plaque in with them? It's supposed to be a
quick way of bringing Cromartie back into the story 7 years
later, but it seems sloppy.
Memorable Dialog
time lag.mp3
I'm not yelling.mp3
you died two years ago.mp3
it's not so bad being a Connor.mp3
how was I killed?.mp3
leave a message.mp3
cat person.mp3
were you going to kill that cop?.mp3
not this John.mp3
why are diamonds a girl's best friend?.mp3
it was one of his favorite things that you did.mp3
my dad's always a hero...and he's always dead.mp3
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