Visions of Kyle Reese guide the injured Sarah.
Dr. Manny D'Costa
Dr. Felicia Burnett
Didja Notice?
At the beginning of the episode, the voice of Kyle Reese is
repeating words he told Sarah (with some additions) in
The Terminator.
Sarah and her visions of Kyle trade quotes from the film
throughout this episode.
Sarah's hospital chart at 1:36 on the Blu-ray states that
she is at Calico Hills Hospital after suffering a gunshot
wound in the leg in
"Earthlings Welcome Here".
This appears to be a fictitious hospital. The sheriff's
deputy guarding Sarah's room has a shoulder patch for Muir
County, suggesting this is where the hospital is located;
this is a fictitious county of California.
The vision of Kyle that Sarah sees throughout the episode is
dressed in the same clothes he wore throughout the 1984
scenes of
The Terminator.
The sheriff's deputy appears to be carrying a
Glock
17. Sarah knocks him out and takes the gun from him,
carrying it throughout the episode.
Dr. D'Costa's lab coat at 4:42 on the Blu-ray has a patch on
the breast revealing that the hospital Riley is in after her
suicide attempt is Bradley-Hahn Medical Center. This also
appears to be a fictitious hospital.
Dr. D'Costa tells John that he is obligated to place Riley
under a 5150 medical hold for the next 72 hours while a CPS
caseworker makes a judgment on her foster care situation.
Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and
Institutions Code that allows for the involuntary
psychiatric hold of an individual by a doctor or law
enforcement under suspicion of a mental disorder.
CPS is Child Protective Services, a state governmental agency
that provides protection to minors under threat of abuse or
neglect.
At 5:04 on the Blu-ray, Sarah is outside of
Providence Holy Cross Cancer Center. This is an actual
California-based cancer center, with locations in Mission
Hills and Santa Clarita.
The ambulance seen at 7:11 on the Blu-ray is a 2008
Ford
F-Series Super Duty. The car parked next to it is a 1986
Oldsmobile 98 Regency.
The old shoulder wound seen on Sarah's left shoulder at 9:49
on the Blu-ray is seemingly meant to be where the T-1000
stabbed her near the end of
Judgment Day, but in
that film, she was stabbed in the right shoulder.
At 15:12 on the Blu-ray, the clock in
Sarah's motel room tells us it is currently 2:13 (p.m. since
it is still daylight).
In her vision during this scene, Sarah tells Kyle
she is going to die and he responds, "It won't be the first
time." Is this a reference to Sarah's death from
leukemia in the
Rise of the Machines
timeline(s)?
At 17:08 on the Blu-ray, John Henry is seen playing with
action figures from the
Bionicle toy series made by Lego. The characters he
is playing with are Solek,
Toa Gali, and
Toa Tahu (in his Tahu Mistika form). John Henry's
description of Toa Tahu here and, later, of Solek, are
roughly accurate of the characters.

As John Henry tells of the origin of his humanoid body,
shots of George Laszlo (the actor whose likeness the body is
based on) from his film Beast Wizard VII (from
"The Mousetrap") are seen on
the monitor screen next to him.
John Henry states to Weaver that Zeira Corporation has
gained control of 7 percent of the world's coltan supply. In
"Heavy Metal", it was learned
that coltan is an important component of the metal of a
Terminator endoskeleton.
As Sarah and Dr. Burnett exit her car to the hospital at
21:06 on the Blu-ray, a car parked in the lot (Honda Civic?)
has CA license plate 2QCE265. This is a prop plate seen in a
number of Hollywood productions such as Law and Order,
Knight Rider (2008), and Iron Man.
At 24:18 on the Blu-ray, Derek's Dodge Ram suddenly looks
much dirtier than it was just a second before!
Riley tells Jesse about a girl at school who killed herself
whom John had tried to help. This is a reference to Jordon
Cowan, who jumped off a school building and killed herself
in "The Turk".
The urinals seen in the restroom at 31:44 on the Blu-ray are
made by Kohler
Co. The shot of the man using the urinal is probably
meant to recall the scene in
"Samson & Delilah" when the
urinal used by Justin Tuck is suddenly shown to be covered
in the polymimetic alloy of the Catherine Weaver T-1000 just
before she kills him. Here, the urinal is just a urinal;
Weaver walks past him and kills him as he is exiting the
restroom.
The shot of the Weaver liquid metal Terminator emerging from
the flames of the warehouse explosion is very similar to the
shot of the T-1000 emerging from the truck explosion in
Judgment Day.
The metal box Kyle digs up from near the tree in Sarah's
dream at 37:48 on the Blu-ray is a military ammo storage
box. However, the box is labeled as containing "Blank M200
Cartons". In most cases, the military would not be using
blank cartridges, even in training. It may be that the box
was from this or another film or television production,
which does use lots of blanks in gun scenes.
At 39:15 on the Blu-ray, what appears to be a Christian
cross is seen hanging on the wall of the hospital morgue
where Dr. Burnett has removed the bullet from Sarah's leg.
After Dr. Burnett shoots Sheriff McKinley, he falls to the
floor next to a
Hausted
gurney.
Unanswered Questions
How did Sarah wind up at the hospital after being shot in
the leg in "Earthlings
Welcome Here"? The most likely explanation would seem to
be that she drove herself there with the intention of
kidnapping a doctor to remove the bullet (which she later
does) but fell unconscious and was taken in.
Memorable Dialog
it won't be the first time.mp3
you're not human.mp3
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