6.4/10969 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.0/10891 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.0/10862 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.3/101,403 votesLoading...#4 - Gnothi Seauton
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2008
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
7.3/10922 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.4/101,198 votesLoading...#6 - Heavy Metal
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/2008
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
7.4/10997 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.4/10869 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.4/10917 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.5/101,285 votesLoading...#10 - The Turk
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2008
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
7.5/10896 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.5/10890 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.6/101,908 votesLoading...#13 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2008
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
7.6/101,082 votesLoading...#14 - Vick's Chip (1)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/2008
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
7.6/10894 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.6/10878 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.7/101,156 votesLoading...#17 - Dungeons & Dragons
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/2008
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
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
7.7/10960 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.7/10985 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.7/10914 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.8/101,147 votesLoading...#21 - Queen's Gambit
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/2008
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
7.8/101,144 votesLoading...#22 - The Demon Hand
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/2008
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
7.8/101,094 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.8/10909 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.9/101,028 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Every episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles!
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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep" is the worst rated episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". It scored 6.4/10 based on 969 votes. Directed by Scott Lautanen and written by Denise Thé, Natalie Chaidez, it aired on 2/27/2009. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Earthlings Welcome Here".