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The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet,

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 16 - Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep
    6.3/10(1047 votes)

    S2:E16

    Sarah suspects that something fishy is going on at the medical clinic where she is being treated for insomnia. During her stay, she has flashbacks to a run-in she had with a man from the plant whom she thought she had already killed.

    Director:Scott Lautanen
    Writers:Denise Thé, Natalie Chaidez

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  2. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 13 - Earthlings Welcome Here
    7.0/10(960 votes)

    S2:E13

    Sarah turns to a UFO convention for answers about the "three dots," more details about Riley's mission are revealed, and Ellison begins working with Catherine Weaver's AI prototype, "John Henry."

    Director:Félix Alcalá
    Writer:Natalie Chaidez

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  3. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 15 - Desert Cantos
    7.0/10(928 votes)

    S2:E15

    The Connors visit a town connected to the destroyed factory; Weaver sends a man into town in search of a survivor.

    Director:J. Miller Tobin
    Writers:John Wirth, Ian B. Goldberg

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  4. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 2 - Gnothi Seauton
    7.3/10(1509 votes)

    S1:E2

    Sarah makes contact with an old friend to ask a favor, while John decides to pay a visit to Sarah's ex and Cameron makes a new friend. Together they infiltrate a resistance safe house and discover they are not alone. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison realizes that Sarah is still alive and a dangerous person from Sarah's past is reawakened.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writer:Josh Friedman

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  5. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 12 - Alpine Fields
    7.3/10(998 votes)

    S2:E12

    Terminators come after a family whose unborn daughter plays an important role in the war against the Machines, and Sarah, Cameron, and Derek try to protect them.

    Directors:Charles Beeson, Bryan Spicer
    Writer:John Enbom

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  6. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 4 - Heavy Metal
    7.4/10(1283 votes)

    S1:E4

    While searching for some stolen cargo, John becomes separated from Sarah and Cameron. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison's murder investigation leads him to a surprising suspect.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:John Enbom

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  7. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 2 - Automatic for the People
    7.4/10(1073 votes)

    S2:E2

    Sarah and Cameron investigate a nuclear power plant; John grows less enthusiastic about academics but flourishes socially with the help of a new friend; Catherine Weaver gets another piece of the puzzle for her pet project.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writer:Natalie Chaidez

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  8. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 10 - Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point
    7.4/10(943 votes)

    S2:E10

    Sarah's quest to find the meaning behind the "three dots" leads to a technology firm seeking an advanced microchip. Meanwhile, Jesse comes clean to Derek about her mission and Weaver makes an important introduction.

    Director:Scott Peters
    Writers:Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller

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  9. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 14 - The Good Wound
    7.4/10(987 votes)

    S2:E14

    While fighting to stay alive, Sarah is guided by the image of John's father. Weaver's attempt to protect John Henry has deadly consequences.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writers:Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller

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  10. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 3 - The Turk
    7.5/10(1379 votes)

    S1:E3

    Sarah visits Miles Dyson's widow to find the creator of Skynet. She leads her to a man named Andy Goode who used to work with Dyson and is building a chess-playing computer named "The Turk." John and Cameron try their best to fit in on their first day at a new high school.

    Director:Paul A. Edwards
    Writer:John Wirth

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  11. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 6 - The Tower Is Tall but the Fall Is Short
    7.5/10(976 votes)

    S2:E6

    While Sarah, John and Cameron track another name from their list, they accidentally cross paths with T-1001. Meanwhile, a woman who Derek once knew in the past surprises him by appearing in the present.

    Director:Tawnia McKiernan
    Writer:Denise Thé

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  12. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 9 - Complications
    7.5/10(964 votes)

    S2:E9

    Sarah finds that the strange dreams she's been having while she sleeps are slowly beginning to creep into her waking life, but she has no idea what the dreams mean for her and John. Derek and Jesse investigate a possible Skynet conspirator.

    Director:Steven DePaul
    Writers:John Wirth, Ian B. Goldberg

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  13. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.6/10(2038 votes)

    S1:E1

    After two years in one spot Sarah Connor feels the need to move on before they get too comfortable. They move to a new city where John starts school and meets a mysterious girl. However, danger strikes, and Sarah and John are caught in another struggle for their survival.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writer:Josh Friedman

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  14. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 8 - Vick's Chip (1)
    7.6/10(1168 votes)

    S1:E8

    Derek finds the brain chip from Vick that Cameron had kept. John builds an interface for it and they discover a computerized traffic system is important to Skynet. Sarah decides it must be sabotaged. Meanwhile, Cromartie is checking through school records in search of John.

    Director:J. Miller Tobin
    Writer:Daniel T. Thomsen

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  15. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 7 - Brothers of Nablus
    7.6/10(975 votes)

    S2:E7

    The Connors find themselves on high alert and in odd company after their house is robbed. A Terminator terrorizes Ellison, while another gets dangerously close to John Connor. Derek and Jesse continue to get reacquainted.

    Director:Milan Cheylov
    Writer:Ian B. Goldberg

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  16. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 17 - Ourselves Alone
    7.6/10(946 votes)

    S2:E17

    While Derek does surveillance on a lawyer he suspects may be connected to Skynet, Sarah and Cameron begin to have doubts about Riley.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writers:Daniel T. Thomsen, Toni Graphia

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  17. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 6 - Dungeons & Dragons
    7.7/10(1243 votes)

    S1:E6

    Flashing in and out of consciousness, fighting for his life Derek Reese recalls his future life battling the machines in 2027. Meanwhile, Sarah tries to explain the past to Charley.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writers:Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller

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  18. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 3 - The Mousetrap
    7.7/10(1039 votes)

    S2:E3

    Derek and Sarah must outwit Cromartie after he kidnaps Charley's wife, and they must weigh the consequences in rescuing her. Meanwhile, John finds himself unable to choose between Cameron and Riley.

    Director:Bill Eagles
    Writer:John Wirth

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  19. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 5 - Goodbye to All That
    7.7/10(1070 votes)

    S2:E5

    John and Derek infiltrate a military academy in order to protect an integral member of the future resistance. Meanwhile, Weaver’s first assignment for Ellison takes an interesting turn of events when he discovers a specter from his own past.

    Director:Bryan Spicer
    Writers:Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller

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  20. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 18 - Today Is the Day (1)
    7.7/10(984 votes)

    S2:E18

    As the Connors prepare to move, they find out that Riley is dead, and Sarah begins to doubt Cameron's motives. Jesse flashes back to a submarine mission in the future, and John Henry plays hide and seek with Catherine Weaver's daughter.

    Director:Guy Norman Bee
    Writers:Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller

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  21. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 5 - Queen's Gambit
    7.8/10(1232 votes)

    S1:E5

    Sarah reevaluates the capabilities of her friend Andy's computer after he enters it in a chess competition. During the competition Sarah meets a stranger with a history similar to hers. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison finds remnants from a past terminator battle.

    Director:Matt Earl Beesley
    Writer:Natalie Chaidez

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  22. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 Episode 7 - The Demon Hand
    7.8/10(1233 votes)

    S1:E7

    Sarah breaks into Agent Ellison's apartment and discovers a file on her from her time at the mental hospital, leading her to Dr. Silberman, now a doomsday convert. Meanwhile Cameron signs up for a ballet class and John finds out how his mom escaped the mental hospital.

    Director:Charles Beeson
    Writer:Toni Graphia

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  23. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 4 - Allison from Palmdale
    7.8/10(1175 votes)

    S2:E4

    A software glitch causes Cameron to forget who she is. She goes missing from the Connors and is taken in by a street kid named Jody. Cameron and Jody end up at a halfway house where Cameron meets with a social worker who uncovers some of Cameron’s distant memories. Meanwhile, Catherine Weaver meets with Agent Ellison to discuss his future at Zeira Corp, and Ellison does some digging into Weaver’s past.

    Director:Charles Beeson
    Writer:Toni Graphia

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  24. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 20 - To the Lighthouse
    7.8/10(975 votes)

    S2:E20

    Sarah and John hit the road without Cameron and Derek to stay with Charley Dixon, where she reveals to Charley that her cancer may have emerged. Meanwhile, a computer worm infects John Henry.

    Director:Guy Ferland
    Writer:Natalie Chaidez

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  25. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 11 - Self Made Man
    7.9/10(1111 votes)

    S2:E11

    Cameron learns that a terminator was accidentally sent back to 1920s Los Angeles, and she tries to find out what happened to him. Meanwhile, John has a run-in with a group of punks while taking Riley home from a party.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writer:Toni Graphia

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep" is the worst rated episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". It scored 6.3/10 based on 1047 votes. Directed by Scott Lautanen and written by Denise Thé, Natalie Chaidez, it aired on 2/27/2009. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Earthlings Welcome Here".