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Gnothi Seauton (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

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"Gnothi Seauton (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)"

"Gnothi Seauton" is the second episode of the American television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It aired January 14, 2008 in the United States. The episode's title is Greek for "know thyself." During the episode Sarah comments on the origin of the phrase and what it means for her and John.



Plot

This episode takes place three days after the trio's arrival in September, 2007. John desires to go outside. But Sarah doesn't allow because she feels that they need to obtain new identities first. Cameron takes Sarah to a safe house where four resistance agents from 2027 will provide them with weapons and money. When the two arrive they find that the agents have been killed. Cameron and Sarah start looking for barcodes on their bodies. One of the dead agents is actually a Terminator posing to be dead. It briefly attacks Cameron and flees. The two give pursuit. Sarah crashes a motorbike into the machine briefly disabling it. Cameron crosses the street but is hit by a car allowing the Terminator to escape. While, the two are driving back home Sarah asks why they travelled to the future. cameron answers that Sarah died of cancer in 2005 and by travelling in the future she actually skipped her own death.

Back home, John secretly goes outside. He goes to an electronics store and finds that they are believed to be dead after blowign themself up in a bank eight years ago. john also finds that FBI Agent James Ellison was the one after them in the pilot episode. John also goes to Charley Dixon's home. John finds that Charley has married. John hears someone at the door. He hides and Charley reconizes him. When Charley comes closer John knocks him out and flees.

Sarah suggests, they get new identities from Enrique. Who is revealed to be a traitor. Meanwhile, Sarah, John and Cameron go back to the safe house to steal the contents of a safe they saw there. When Cameron attempts to open it she go offline when her systems are elctrecuted by a security device inplanted inside the safe. John figures out the code (the new date of Judgment Day: April 19, 2012) After stealing a bag from the safe they flee before the Termiantor who Cameron battle in the beginning discovers them.

At Enrique's house Sarah is about to kill Enrique for betraying them but she hesitates. Cameron then shoots and kills him because Sarah wouldn't. Later, Agent Ellison is at the crime scene at Enrique's home. He is listening to a recording made just before Enrique died, offering the identity and whereabouts of a fugitive.

Cast

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