Previously on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles...
What is it you wanted to show me?
We need to learn how they work, how to fight 'em.
We're developing a human interactive AI.
The name is "Babylon". It's going to change the World.
- Dr. Boyd Sherman. - He's on that wall for a reason.
I guess I'm still a little fuzzy as to why you called me here.
- The AI needs to be trained. - You care about this girl?
- Then leave her alone. - You're pissed off
because I found someone I actually like spending time with
and it's not you.
What does this mean to you?
I keep seeing it in my dreams, John. It means something.
Go back to bed.
Keep it ruining.
We'll be back.
- Right place? - Right place.
Should have brought John.
We dont need to know much about computers
in order to do this.
Get the ones over there.
It's the same as the rest. It's vaporware.
- There's nothing there? - I didn't say that.
It's a design for an AI.
Built to handle big problems.
But you need a whole server farm, and they've got zip... less than zip...
after you lobotomized their desktops.
But they have a design.
But it's like all those articles you read
about terrorists having plans for bombs and they're missing the plutonium.
It's another dead end.
You're chasing phantoms and smudges on a wall.
Again.
Artificial intelligence, the company logo,
- the three dots... - Are fingerprints...
left by that poor bastard while he was bleeding out, that's all.
It's just blood.
Everything on that wall has meant something.
It's all blood.
Cromartie's body isn't in Ellison's yard.
Nobody's saying to stop looking.
But this...
its not the Turk.
You've been looking really hard, mom.
- Maybe too hard. - If you're gonna start in too, don't.
- Morning. - Good morning to you.
Well, I did some digging on the drives.
Dakara Systems is hunting for start-up money.
They need investors for the server farm they're gonna build.
Big investors.
I made you an appointment. Here's your cover.
I'm a rich divorcee looking to put my money
into tech start-ups.
That's right.
I also made you a cheat sheet
so you wouldn't sound like a total moron
when you're asking about neural networks and emergent behavior.
- I have no idea what you just said. - Yeah, that's my point.
Were you up all night doing this?
Dakara Systems is a start-up, okay.
So was Cyberdyne once.
Andy Goode was building a chess program.
Barbara Chamberlain was trying to solve a traffic problem.
It always starts small.
You've got 30 seconds.
- Go. - Funny, Derek.
25. I'm not joking.
- I was sent back to find him. - You could have told me.
You could have told me you were living with him. With her. It.
Metal.
He wasn't talking to anyone anymore. Just her.
He's making questionable decisions. Getting people killed.
Good people.
- 10 seconds. - She's taken over.
It's sick is what it is.
Imagine if he spends the next 20 years with her.
Imagine what he'd become.
What she'll turn him into.
Just try.
I'm here to stop her.
I'm here to save him.
I've gotta think about this.
What the hell are you doing here?
Why'd Connor sent you back?
I love you...
but don't push it.
Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point
http://Projet-SG.net Transcript: Sadgeezer.
Been a long time. Heard you lost some weight.
Yeah, well, too much iron in your diet's not good.
What you got?
A heat wave blew a transformer on Sunday,
blacked out half of downtown.
Single guy, working the weekends.
Spent eight hours in a sealed room.
No AC, no ventilation.
Heated up until it easy-baked him to death.
Not a happy ending.
His name is Dr. Boyd Sherman.
He was a consultant on a project here.
He worked downstairs.
Downstairs?
The basement?
We call the project Babylon.
It's a sophisticated computer program.
An artificial intelligence.
During the blackout,
the AI reserved generator power for itself.
And in doing so, shut down the building's other systems.
And this AI... it has control over the building?
You make it sound like a monster movie.
The facility and the AI are interconnected
only to the extent that the AI needs the facility's resources
to help it grow.
And does growing...
involve allowing the agonizing death
of an otherwise healthy man?
I don't know what his intentions were.
Intentions?
Now it does sound like a monster movie.
Which is why we need to find out.
- Thank you, Colonel. - Good to see you.
Sarah Gale.
Alex Akagi. Welcome to Dakara.
You'll have to bear with us. We had a break-in last night.
They took our drives.
Industrial espionage, for sure.
There's a lot of money in AI. A lot of money.
Aren't you worried they've got your software now?
- That they'll pass it off as their own? - No.
My son built security measures into the code.
Anyone tries to use the system, it'll attack.
Is that why the AF wants it?
The Air Force has been interested in AI applications for a long time.
As far back as the '80s.
Strange you call the '80s "far back".
I know, isn't it? Are you a music fan?
That's how I mark the decades.
Fome, the '80s will always be Duran Duran.
Duran Duran... I loved Duran Duran.
We used to go dancing. I miss dancing.
- We'd dress up. - Headband, big hair?
It's the hardest thing to get right.
- Hair. - Right.
So... the Air Force.
Spreading money all over.
R&D, industry co-financing, prizes.
I call her Emma.
My AI.
Her name is Emma.
Like my mom.
He never knew her.
She died in a car crash in 1984.
Coffee? Always helps me think better.
- You? - Always.
Do you like chess?
I don't pretend to know what goes on in that big brain.
He operates in realms that you and I can't imagine.
He just has trouble with this one.
He needs you.
I bet sometimes it feels like he always will.
You have any kids?
Just one. Just my son.
Also challenging?
- In his own way. - Then, you get it.
We'd do anything for our kids,
throw our lives out the window if we had to.
Tell me what you need.
Well, last night I would have said $100,000 and little patience.
This morning I need ten times that and a miracle.
That's a hell of a morning.
- Xander's design is so good. - How much time do you have?
Two weeks.
You need more than I have, Mr. Akagi.
Call me Alex.
Sorry, Alex.
Well, I'm sorry too, Ms. Gale.
Call me Sarah.
Hi, I'm looking for Riley.
Yeah, sure. You must be John.
Kay. This is John.
Come in. Riley's upstairs.
So your foster parents... it's not really what I imagined.
Yeah, they're nice.
They're too nice. They're aliens.
You see those kids down there? They're not theirs.
They're just losers...
and cast-offs and rejects.
They run a loser camp here.
What about my posters?
What's your favorite?
I don't know. I like Yosemite.
I've been there with my mom.
What about you?
I'm gonna guess the bear.
You seem like a bear person.
It's not a poster of a bear.
It's a poster of a fish being caught by a bear.
Just swiped out of the water.
Totally at random.
Do the other fish even care?
Do they even notice?
They just keep swimming, like nothing happened.
Because nothing important did.
I think I'm gonna go.
Stay.
I mean, you came here for a reason, right?
Stay.
Back in Mexico,
I promised to explain everything.
The truth.
But the truth is...
there's nothing I can explain.
Nothing I can say.
You don't have to say anything.
It's okay.
You can just sit here with me.
I'd like that.
Sorry.
Okay, we've got three dots, an AI with a name,
and a strong sense of self-preservation.
Plus the United States Air Force.
What does this add up to for you?
Not the Turk.
Xander doesn't play chess.
He prefers "Go."
It's a game.
The chinese invented it 5,000 years ago.
Xander said it's been calculated there are more possible "Go" games
than there are atoms in the universe.
He's offered to teach me how to play.
Did he offer to tell you about his AI?
It's not the Turk.
I told you, Xander doesn't play chess.
But it could be a piece of the puzzle. We've seen that.
Strange things happen at the one-two point.
It's a Go proverb.
It means the usual rules don't always apply.
It's always the same rules. They always apply.
Dakara has no money. They'll miss the Air Force's deadline.
They'll find the money.
Everything they need. Every penny.
- They'll get their miracle. - How do you know?
I know because it's written in blood on my basement wall.
Cute top.
You wanted to talk?
You look tired.
Are you sleeping enough?
He came to visit me today.
And I though he was gonna tell me everything.
I think that's what he wanted to do.
And then...
nothing happened.
He just left.
Something's wrong.
- Off balance. - Steady him. He's reaching out.
He ran away from me.
He's a boy.
There's a lot of mirrors in this world.
Did you notice that?
I don't think I can do this anymore.
I'm sorry.
It's not easy, I understand.
Maybe you even have some real feelings for him.
Who wouldn't? He's John Connor.
There's a reason people follow him all over hell.
Well, what if I want out?
How would you do that?
Where would you go?
There is no out.
You can do this.
You have to do this.
Take a look at this.
You see 'em?
The three dots on the belt.
If you're gonna talk about my mom when she's not here...
No, I'm talking about the three dots on this belt.
I'm seeing them everywhere now.
It's got me thinking how crazy this can make you.
You start seeing things in every corner and on every wall.
And pretty soon you forget what it was you were looking for in the first place.
All of us, everyone.
I remember.
I always remember.
Do you?
Are you sure?
Derek, what the hell?
Nothing.
I just need to know that you're seeing clearly.
I need to know someone is, but especially you.
How old did you say your son was?
I didn't, but he's 16.
Guess we had our kids at about the same age.
I had mine when I was 21. You?
- 19. - 19.
My wife, Emma, was 19 when we first met.
It was the debut performance of Pink Floyd's The Wall
at the LA Memorial Sports Arena.
I remember that.
I wanted to see it so bad.
That was in 1980,
so you were... nine?
I was very young.
This morning I told you I needed a miracle.
Did you get it?
Do you remember the chess tournament
the Air Force sponsored a couple of months ago?
A friend of a friend works for a company that sponsored the winners...
the Japanese.
They have a chip, a prototype. 12 nanometers.
A chip?
It's a supercomputer,
small enough to fit on the end of your finger.
They want to license it to us.
We quietly put it through its paces,
they get a real-world test.
And if it works, we're all geniuses.
Very rich geniuses.
What do you need for this chip?
A deposit.
Our Japanese friends are very risk-averse.
They want half a million to demonstrate seriousness.
And you think it works, this chip?
It's the future.
I've been in warmer morgues.
We've gotta keep the temperature around freezing or the towers would fry.
A computer's like anything else. More you ask, more power it needs.
Power generates heat, requires cooling, needs more power.
You know, Babylon is kind of a pig.
Babylon?
You know the story?
I was a comp science major. I minored in beer bong engineering.
I didn't read a lot of stories.
It was a marvel.
God destroyed it.
God definitely gave it a shot yesterday. The blackout should have shut it down.
Should've?
Babylon routed every watt from the generators to keep itself running.
- So it broke the rules. - It invented new ones.
Ms. Weaver said Dr. Sherman worked on the AI.
Touchy-feely BS, if you ask me.
How did it feel about him?
Sorry?
Babylon.
How did it feel about Dr. Sherman?
I know how that sounds.
It's a computer.
I mean, how does a coffee maker feel about coffee?
Humor me.
You're asking if it knew it was killing Sherman
when it threw the switch?
Impossible.
I hope.
It's not enough.
What would be enough?
Everything.
Everything, then.
You're certain?
Certain is a luxury.
The rules do not apply.
No, I guess they don't.
- Are you okay? - Just impatient.
Sorry for the big prologue.
You have to use the full range of tools
on a guy like him before you can close.
You're lucky your tech there aren't his type.
You're kidding.
A little bit.
Are you sure you want to do this in cash?
I don't like banks.
Return the toast. Proper etiquette.
They used to think that 12 nanometer scale was impossible.
The circuits are so tiny, you're all but
in the quantum realm.
It's the most sophisticated processor on Earth.
If you could take your memories,
your consciousness...
everything that makes you a person...
turn it into pure data and download it onto a machine,
that chip could run it.
Are you gonna eat that?
America, I love it here.
No pressure. No expectations.
Good sake.
So, Hideo,
How long do you estimate before we stop screwing around here,
and you hand over the chip?
A pleasure doing business with you, Ms. Gale.
I didn't know you spoke Japanese.
I was into Styx before Duran Duran.
You missed dinner again. Leftovers are in the fridge.
All right, give it back.
- Give what back? - The remote.
You took it, and I know you did. Riley saw.
- I did not, you liar. - I'm gonna tell Mom.
Tell mom what?
Gina took the remote because she knows that shark week is on,
and she wants to watch some pillow-biters sing and dance.
I know you're upset, but we don't use those words in this house.
But she started it, and Riley saw.
- He's crazy. - What?
I said... he's crazy.
You're all crazy!
Every one of you.
You just sit here in your cozy little house
with your cold sodas and your Facebook pages
like it all matters.
Like it's even real. But it's not.
It's all gonna burn, and you're gonna be nothing
but bleached skulls.
Don't you get it?
You're dead. All of you are dead!
Honey, don't...
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Look at them.
So many dreams.
We're about to burn those dreams to the ground.
Connections are up. Going full power.
Loading the program.
- What's going on? - Core dump.
Processor register error in the CPU memory.
I'm sure it's just a hiccup.
The data...
should have been like a postage stamp on a pool table.
But it's trying to push a watermelon through a garden hose.
It's 40 nanometers, not 12.
This chip is an older design.
Disguised to appear more advanced.
Minamoto screwed us.
My family used to run a dry-goods store in Azusa
before the second World War.
After Pearl Harbor, when they were all getting rounded up
for internment at heart mountain,
the neighbors offered to watch our home and business for us.
"Just sign this little piece of paper, Mr. Agagi."
What my grandpa didn't know
is that while his son was fighting his way across Italy with the 442nd,
the neighbors were getting the property condemned
and deeding it to themselves.
You couldn't have known about Minamoto.
I'll fix it.
I'm gonna make it right. I don't know how long it'll take,
but I'll pay you back, every dime.
That's not important right now.
I'll talk to him.
You don't just talk to someone like him.
Minamoto is old country.
Yakuza.
- You know what Yakuza is? - Yakuza. A gangster.
You hit him, he'll hit you back.
Only he'll hit you back tenfold.
He'll mail what's left of you to your son one piece at a time, COD.
And you trusted him.
Most of these guys are mobbed up.
You didn't buy that chip. You were paying him to steal it.
All we know are the facts.
Means. Opportunity.
But intent?
Not even Mr. Murch can guess.
Well, why did you ask him?
Ask the Babylon AI.
Ask John Henry.
It has a name?
That was something Dr. Sherman did.
Gave it that name.
It's not a person.
But it's a mind.
Talk to John Henry.
The AI communicates through images. Symbolistic responses.
We thought about using a natural language interface
but decided against it. Too creepy.
But it has voice recognition. Just talk to it.
John Henry, I'm James Ellison.
You know who I am.
Good.
Do you know Dr. Boyd Sherman?
It's a yes.
Binary. One is yes, zero is no.
Did you work with him yesterday?
Did you work with him today?
Why is that?
Null operator. No operation.
Could mean dead. Could mean waiting for input.
Just rephrase it.
Show me what happened to Dr. Sherman.
He was in the lab when the power went out.
Biometrics showed normal.
Generators came online.
Power went to the server farms.
Dr. Sherman tried to leave.
The electronic door failed.
His pulse increased.
There was only enough power to run and cool the servers.
Security and biometric monitoring went offline.
Show me security video and biometrics for the lab
at the time external power returned.
His heart had stopped.
His temperature had risen with the room
to almost double standard ambient temperatures.
Well above human survivability levels.
He was dead.
But John Henry says "Medical Attention Required".
Was Dr. Sherman alive at this time?
But you called the paramedics.
You thought they could help?
Am I alive?
Am I dead?
Null operator.
Doesn't understand the question.
How'd you feel about Dr. Sherman?
Do you understand that redirecting the power to the server farms
caused Dr. Sherman to die?
What image do you associate with that information?
It has no feeling for what it did.
Has no opinion.
That's what it's telling you.
Sure, you taught it procedures.
You taught it rules, but it's got no ethics.
No morals.
Whether...
it had any feeling about Dr. Sherman shouldn't matter
if you had taught it to value Sherman's life.
Someone killed a man.
And it wasn't John Henry.
Excuse me.
What would you teach it?
What would you teach it, if you could?
If you want to teach it commands,
start with the first Ten.
Get down on the ground now!
Get down on the ground! Now!
- I don't have your money. - Your english got good. Real good.
Are you gonna kill me?
If I were you, I'd try and talk me out of it.
What do you want me to say? I'm an actor.
I'll say whatever you want. I'm just an actor.
An actor? Who hired you? The real Minamoto or Yakuza?
The real...
Lady, I told you.
I want the chip. The real chip.
I just handed back what was handed to me by Akagi.
That's all, I swear.
- Don't lie! - Please!
- What? - He's not lying.
- And how the hell do you know? - I know.
You never saw my face.
Did you get it?
Something's going on here. We just have to dig deeper.
The guy's an actor. You know who hired him, and why.
- Is someone gonna fill me in? - It all adds up.
The dots, the AI, the Air Force, the chip.
The nothing. Listen to yourself.
First it's the dots, then the AI. Now it's the chip.
Whatever you've needed it to be, that's what it is.
You got played. It happens. Welcome to the human race.
- Who you working for? - Sarah, what...
- You heard me! - What do you mean?
Don't lie to me.
Sarah, I'm not working for anybody. It's just me and Xander.
Spent a couple of years in a nut house. You wanna know why?
Men like you.
Time was I'd have blown this building sky-high,
- so don't lie to me! - I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry!
- What are you sorry for? - The money. I'm sorry about the money.
It's not about the damn money!
Where's Xander?
Tell me about the chip, about the AI,
about the three dots.
Please don't hurt my boy. Please.
Stop changing the subject and making this about your wife,
your poor grandpa, your son.
Please, it is. It's all about him. It's all about Xander.
- Three dots. - It's just a logo, you crazy bitch!
You wanna see Xander?
- Come on. Please. - You wanna see your son?
Please don't hurt him. I'll kill you.
Tell him.
Tell him what you won't tell me. Tell him the truth.
Dad...
It's okay. I won't let her hurt you.
Then tell your son what you've done, or she'll throw you through that window.
Don't think she can't.
There was no chip.
I made it up to get her money.
What?
No chip.
I mocked it up and hired Minamoto to sell it to us.
We couldn't make the Air Force deadline, Xan.
No chance.
I had to make sure you were taken care of.
I just couldn't take that chance.
But it could work.
My design can work.
- Daddy... - I hope you're right. I do.
I have faith in you.
It's just...
sometimes I barely understand what you're saying.
And I wonder if you understand me.
The money is under my desk.
And it's just a logo.
I'm gonna regret giving you a key. Aren't I?
John Connor's my nephew.
Three people know that fact. You're the fourth.
I see.
I came here to fight a war.
To do whatever it takes to stop Skynet.
Now. Today.
If we're gonna do this,
there's no more room for secrets.
If there's anything you haven't told me, I need to hear it now.
Remember when we were stationed at Serrano Point?
That whole time...
I was using your toothbrush.
The one in my mess kit?
I wasn't using it to brush my teeth.
Mom?
It's Riley.
I'm okay.
Knocking.
How not like you.
Sarcasm. How not like you.
Wait, that's exactly like you.
I just wanted to stop by to let you know
that I reject your rejection.
Do you want to go for a walk?
Mom, I'm going out for a while.
I thought about what you said.
About rules.
The Ten Commandments.
I'm not qualified to teach John Henry those things.
I don't know how.
That's why Dr. Sherman was here.
I want to show you something.
In folklore, John Henry raced a steam drill through a mountain.
One man alone challenged the machine,
armed with an iron hammer.
They say he was born with it in his hand.
His heart gave out. He died, I know.
John Henry defeated the machine.
But he couldn't stop progress.
Hello Mr. Ellison.
My name is John Henry.
How are you today?