Earthlings Welcome Here
Season 2 : Ep. 12 (43:24)
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES: Sarah (Lena Headey) attends a UFO Convention looking for answers in the “Earthlings Welcome Here” fall finale episode of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES airing Monday, Dec. 15 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © CR: Michael Roberts/FOX Sarah’s got a gun and the three dots haven’t been forgotten. Sarah is trying to figure out how her dreams are related to Skynet and Judgment Day at a UFO convention.
Riley is acting shady and has a smacked-in-the-head mark near her hairline which triggers a series of events.
(Leven Rambin as Riley, Stephanie Jacobsen as Jesse)
But it turns out that John is heavily interacting with a future-past babe as <poor> Riley was a 16 y.o. version of the little blond girl in Aliens. Instead of Ripley “saving her” only to get her killed at the beginning of Alien 3, Riley’s “saviour” was future-past, shady-intentioned Jesse who Riley is dependent on and who smacks Riley when Riley starts losing her shit.. Very heartless.
Meanwhile:
Sarah wants to find resolution to her ” three dots” obsession and she goes to a UFO enthusiasts gathering where she acts inappropriately–kinda snarky and demanding and they treat her like Little Miss Sweetness and Light.
I thought this got kind of got off track, but the upshot is Sarah meets “Eileen,” someone who hides her true identity to an extreme but seems cooperative in helping Sarah with her dots issues. With Sarah’s “help” however she/he gets killed as does his/her brand new regression therapist who Sarah has forced Eileen/ Abraham/Alan to go to as an “emergency case.”
UFO guy/woman “Eileen” tells Sarah that “Abraham” the blogger was the pseudonym for an MIT-educated researcher named Alan Park, who now goes by “Eileen.” who specialized in what is like radar but with used in robotics. Before Eileen/Abraham/Alan’s death, <exhale> Sarah listens in via bug and gleans information which leads her to burst into a desolate warehouse. Sarah gets herself shot in the leg and kills the guy in the front office. Then she hallucinates seeing herself –again–only this time there are two of her, her present, scary self and her in her old-life-as-a-waitress (who she “killed,” in her words) self who beckons Sarah to crawl towards the light.
She crawls out of the structure in time to see what looks like an huge alien vessel above her. It is very loud. Sarah passes out./end Lena Heady last scene.
It turns out that Riley cannot cope with the charade any longer. After failing to secure help from Jesse, Riley slits her own wrists. This is John just prior to finding her sprawled on the bathroom floor.
Cast: Lena Headey as Sarah Connor; Thomas Dekker as John Connor; Summer Glau as Cameron; Brian Austin Green as Derek Reese; Richard T. Jones as James Ellison; Garret Dillahunt as Cromartie; Shirley Manson as Catherine Weaver; Leven Rambin as Riley, Stephanie Jacobsen as Jesse, Ned Bellamy … Winston ,William Stanford Davis … Pastor Jonas, Michael Hyatt … Barbara,
Dinah Lenney … Eileen / Park, Barry Livingston … Pete
On hiatus until mid-February, 2009, then there should be nine more episodes which finish out Season 2.
Whether there’s going to be Season 3 is really up in the air.
John Henry, formerly ” Cromartie” (Garret Dillahunt)
There were a few scenes with Richard T. Jones as James Ellison who is conflicted about helping “John Henry” learn have a conscience. Ellison’s emotional hand-wringing seems like filler to me. We may as well just show a couple of scenes with him praying, talking with his pastor (which he did), and reading his Bible.
Honestly, I have more emotionally invested in Cromartie (now John Henry) than I do former Agent Ellison.
Shirley Manson was particularly snake-like in this episode–that’s a good thing.


















