8.1/101,228 votes#1 - Samson and Delilah
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2008
After the Jeep explosion, John's 16th birthday makes him confront the fact that he's destined to be alone. Meanwhile, after Cromartie's massacre, Agent Ellison must face off against both the Feds and his faith.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Josh Friedman
7.4/10996 votes#2 - Automatic for the People
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2008
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
7.7/10959 votes#3 - The Mousetrap
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/2008
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
7.8/101,093 votes#4 - Allison from Palmdale
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/2008
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
7.7/10983 votes#5 - Goodbye to All That
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/2008
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
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
7.5/10894 votes#6 - The Tower Is Tall but the Fall Is Short
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/2008
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
7.6/10893 votes#7 - Brothers of Nablus
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2008
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
8.3/101,042 votes#8 - Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/2008
Cromartie kidnaps Sarah and races to Mexico to find John. When Derek, Cameron and Ellison discover what has happened, they come to their defense, which leads to one final deadly confrontation with Cromartie.
Director: Michael Nankin
Writer: Daniel T. Thomsen
7.5/10889 votes#9 - Complications
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/2008
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
Writer: John Wirth, Ian B. Goldberg
7.4/10868 votes#10 - Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/2008
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
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
7.9/101,027 votes#11 - Self Made Man
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/2008
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
7.3/10921 votes#12 - Alpine Fields
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/2008
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.
Director: Charles Beeson, Bryan Spicer
Writer: John Enbom
7.0/10890 votes#13 - Earthlings Welcome Here
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/2008
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 Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Natalie Chaidez
7.4/10916 votes#14 - The Good Wound
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/2009
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
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
7.0/10861 votes#15 - Desert Cantos
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/20/2009
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
Writer: John Wirth, Ian B. Goldberg
6.4/10966 votes#16 - Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/27/2009
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
Writer: Denise Thé, Natalie Chaidez
7.6/10877 votes#17 - Ourselves Alone
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/6/2009
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
Writer: Toni Graphia, Daniel T. Thomsen
7.7/10913 votes#18 - Today Is the Day (1)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/2009
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
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
8.2/10994 votes#19 - Today Is the Day (2)
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/2009
Jesse's submarine mission in the future takes a fatal turn with unforeseen consequences. Back in the present, her plan to turn John against Cameron backfires when John discovers that Jesse--not Cameron--killed Riley and he makes a life-or-death decision.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
7.8/10909 votes#20 - To the Lighthouse
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/27/2009
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
8.5/101,102 votes#21 - Adam Raised a Cain
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/3/2009
When John attempts to rescue Skynet’s latest target he finds himself closing in on Weaver, but at what cost? Game plans change, causing Sarah and Ellison to reunite. Meanwhile, Weaver learns Ellison’s secrets.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Toni Graphia
8.9/101,641 votes#22 - Born to Run
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/10/2009
Fate is changed forever on the explosive season finale episode! The Connors come face-to-face with Weaver in a confrontation that shakes John to the core and changes his reality. Nothing will be the same.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Josh Friedman
The Best Episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2
Every episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2!
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...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Samson and Delilah" is the best rated episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 1228 votes. Directed by David Nutter and written by Josh Friedman, it aired on 9/8/2008. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Automatic for the People".