Ellison finds evidence that Sarah Connor may not be so
insane after all; Cameron discovers ballet; John discovers a
shocking truth about his mother.
The title of this episode is derived from the Harlan Ellison
short story "Demon With a Glass Hand",
which some fans believe was one of several of James Cameron's
inspirations for
The Terminator from
Ellison works.
Cameron becomes interested in ballet dancing during her mission
to track down the Turk in this episode. Actress Summer Glau was
training as a ballet dancer until suffering a broken toe in
2002.
Sgt. Johnson (LAPD alias used by Sarah)
Dr. Silberman
Didja Notice?
Summer Glau just looks too adorably cute as a motorcycle
cop, don't you think? The costume is an homage to that worn
by the T-1000 as a motorcycle cop in
Judgment Day.

A piece of electrical equipment from
S&C Electric
Company is seen at 1:25 on the Blu-ray.
At 1:56 on the Blu-ray, Cameron shoves her hand into a
rapidly rotating electrical turbine to stop it, but receives
no damage to her glove or the skin on her hand!
Cameron robs an evidence locker at the Central Los Angeles
Police Department. This appears to be a fictitious branch of
LAPD.
In the mausoleum, Sarah passes crypts for Jim Dark and Paul
Mason (and numerous others that can't be made out) on her
way to the crypt of Andy Goode. As far as I can tell, there
is no significance to these names other than Andy's.
Andy's crypt reveals his middle name was David.
When Sarah calls the FBI posing as Sgt. Johnson at the
Property department of LAPD, inquiring about the missing
"prosthetic" hand, she does it while sitting on a swing in
the backyard of her house. Doesn't that introduce extraneous
outdoor noises into the call that would tell the FBI man on
the other end that the call was suspicious? It seems
unlikely an LAPD property master would be calling from
anywhere except their office.
At 6:42 on the Blu-ray, we see that Agent Ellison has
Sarah's FBI case file box on the Miles Dyson murder. Seconds
later, we see the box also contains the case folder of her time
at Pescadero State Hospital, where she spent time as a
mental patient as seen in
Judgment Day.
At 6:56 on the Blu-ray, as Ellison watches the video of
Sarah overturning her bed in her cell at Pescadero, notice
that the sink toilet in her cell gets shoved around when
her bed strikes it! Clearly, it is just a prop and not an
actual sink/toilet mounted in the floor and wall.
At 8:31 on the DVD, Ellison has a
Stouffer's frozen dinner in his freezer.
The episode states that Sarah spent three years of her life
in
Pescadero State Hospital. In Timeline JD-2,
"Search Mode" states that
Sarah spent two years under Dr. Silberman's care there
before her escape, although in that case it's not clear if
she may have spent a year there before that under the care
of another doctor. Also in
"Search Mode", Dr. Silberman becomes a patient at his
own mental hospital, whereas here he is said to have retired
to a mountain cabin in Arrowhead right after Sarah's escape.
"Arrowhead" is likely a reference to the community of Lake
Arrowhead, CA in the San Bernardino Mountains.
At 11:38 on the Blu-Ray, the window of the ballet studio
shows that it is called East Valley Ballet Studio.
The music playing at the ballet studio is "Gnossienne No. 2"
by Erik Satie (1893).
Cameron asks the ballet instructor, Maria Shipkov, what
dance another student is doing and is told it is the Pas
de Chat, French for "step of the cat".
Pas de Chat
is an actual ballet move.
Ironically, Maria tells Cameron that her movement is a
little "mechanical".
As John finds Derek loading guns with ammo in Sarah's
bedroom, notice at 13:51 on the Blu-ray that a hair is stuck
on the camera lens in the bottom-right quarter of the
screen!
The tea cups Dr. Silberman uses at his cabin are seen to be
made by Charter Club at 20:34 on the Blu-ray.
The quote Dr. Silberman reads from Matthew 7:15
about "Beware of false prophets" is the actual quote from
the Bible.
Sarah tells Derek that his brother, Kyle, is "in the grass"
and that she can take him there someday if he wants.
Presumably, the city or state would have buried his body
after the events of The
Terminator in 1984 and Sarah learned where the
grave was.
During his conversation with Agent Ellison, Dr. Silberman
describes the events of Sarah's escape from Pescadero
Hospital and the appearance of the T-800 and T-1000
Terminators in Judgment
Day. He describes the T-800 reaching out to Sarah
and saying, "'Come with me if you want to live.' like
God reaching out to man. Like... like the Sistine Chapel."
The Sistine Chapel is a Catholic chapel at the Vatican which
features the famous painting The Creation of Adam by
Michelangelo on its ceiling, with God reaching out
a hand to Adam.
John tells Derek about some foster parents he once stayed
with when his mother was incarcerated, Todd and Janelle.
Todd and Janelle Voight were the foster parents seen in
Judgment Day.
Notice that the scene of Cameron allowing the Shipkovs to
die and the scene of Silberman setting fire to his cabin
with Ellison trapped inside underscore how the former
psychiatrist has become a terminator himself in his
sociopathic breakdown.
Sarah says the date on the video tape when she gave up
custody of John, was June 8, 1997. But she should have said
1995 to be in continuity with
Judgment Day.
The music that plays as Cameron dances ballet at the end of
the episode is Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830).
This is the same music that was playing at the "torture
house" in the future in
"Dungeons & Dragons".
Memorable Dialog
sending me a message all the way back through time.mp3
a little mechanical.mp3
do you believe in the apocalypse?.mp3
the hand of God.mp3
blowing up buildings and ranting about robots.mp3
Todd and Janelle.mp3
I got them killed.mp3
apology accepted.mp3
I might have oversold that a little.mp3
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