Season Thiee

the voice of 5oroh connor 1hey soy if you chose droqons too /onq you// become o droqon l wo/ked
out on my fionc ond skipped over o decode Now hes heod ki//ed not by o mochine but by o
humon






LasL season on 1he Sarah Connor Chronlcles uerek 8eese ls shoL dead whlle Lhe famlly ls savlng Lhe llfe
of Savannah Weaver Sarah Connor dlscovers LhaL whlle Lhe LermlnaLor mlnd of CromarLle ls
permanenLly dead hls body has been Laken over 1he devlce called 1he 1urk ls noL Lhe early sLages of
SkyneL buL used for Llme Lravel 1he Al she soughL Lo klll aL Zelra CorporaLlon was noL SkyneL buL
SkyneLs worsL enemy

Sarah ?ou lylng LermlnaLor blLch ?oure bulldlng SkyneL
Ms Weaver no l was bulldlng someLhlng Lo flghL lL And ld waLch whos calllng who a blLch

Sarah reallzed LhaL Lhls parLlcular 11001 had [usL saved her llfe LhaL Lhls parLlcular 11001 had a nasLy
Lemper and LhaL Lhls parLlcular 11001 could klll her before she lefL Lhe room erhaps Sarah LhoughL l
should keep a clvll Longue ln my head whlle l sLlll had a head

Ms Weaver ls abouL Lo follow her son !ohnPenry Lhe Al who ls Lhe archenemy of SkyneL Lo whaLever
Llme he has Lraveled !ohn Connor lnLends Lo go also because Lhls !ohnPenry he has never meL has
Laken Camerons Cu chlp ln order Lo become moblle and no longer LeLhered Lo Lhe umblllcal cord of
ZelraCorps malnframe
lL ls a llghL sLorm we have seen before Sarah sLeps back and ouL of Lhe bubble !ohn ls shocked LhaL hls
moLher would beLray Cameron by noL golng afLer her chlp lll sLop lL are Lhe lasL words !ohn hears hls
moLher speak


ln Lhe fuLure !ohn can see wlLh one glance LhaL hls moLher elLher falled Lo sLop SkyneL or perhaps leL lL
because she wanLed Lhe world Lo burn
Wheres Lhe body?
!ohn ls Lold by Ms Weaver LhaL Lhe body cannoL come Lhrough because lL ls dead wlLhouL Camerons
chlp and mlnd !ohn hlmself has beLrayed Cameron by geLLlng lnLo a rouLlne of removlng her chlp (noL
reallzlng LhaL Lhls llLerally kllls her) !ohnPenry has beLrayed Cameron Loo Ms Weaver abandons !ohn
Connor and beLrays Cameron also Cameron has been lured lnLo Lhe Machlne underground for her chlp
and beLrayed by Lhem Per mlnd ls back ln Lhe Zelra malnframe back ln Aprll of 2009


!ohn Connor Sarah Connors son ls gone lL ls only Lhen LhaL Sarah reallzes LhaL her own haLred of
LermlnaLors machlnes Cameron uerek and everyone and everyLhlng LhaL wasnL her son had bllnded
her Lo Lhe LruLh She dldnL really care abouL hunLlng SkyneL or sLopplng !udgmenL uay All she cared
abouL was her son !ohn and Lo hell wlLh Lhe resL of us Cameron had reallzed Lhls aL an early sLage
(around Lhe Llme she sLopped !ohn from savlng !ordan Cowan from [umplng Lo her deaLh) Cameron fell
ln llne wlLh Sarahs obLuse slnglemlnded pursulL of Lralnlng !ohn Lo lead ln a posLApocalypLlc world lf
you assume desLrucLlon you no longer have Lhe moLlvaLlon Lo sLop lL All Sarah had Lo do was go vlslL
Cyberdyne a second Llme and she mlghL never have senL Cameron Lo klll an Al belng Lralned Lo flghL
SkyneL ln essence she senL Cameron Lo klll a baby And Lhe wrong baby aL LhaL lf Lhe lmmorallLy of
kllllng bables (machlne or human) doesnL boLher one

Sarah had been flghLlng SkyneL so long and so lneffecLlvely LhaL she had become as bad as SkyneL and as
commlLLed Lo burnlng Lhe world







episoue six
Peiuition


eiro 4l /ob
8eLurnlng Lhe nexL mornlng and dreadlng Lhe censure of Lhe lab workers Sarah freaked ouL and
demanded LhaL securlLy send for !ames Llllson

SLandlng ln LhaL empLy room wlLh MlsLer Llllson Sarah asked hlm Lo reLurn her Lo Lhe Los Angeles
CounLy !all ln Lhe [allbreak when every prlsoner escaped she would be Lhe flrsL prlsoner Lo Lurn herself
ln and do Lhe rlghL Lhlng


Los 4nqe/es county loi/
As Sarah saL ln her cell Lhe sole prlsoner ln Lhe blg empLy [all she LhoughL abouL uocLor Sherman and
Lhe oLher psychologlsLs who Lrled Lo help her When uocLor Sllberman flnally wenL off Lhe deep end and
Lold Sarah LhaL he belleved her her response was Lo knock hlm ouL cold Llllson had hlm commlLLed Lo
Lhe same rubber room LhaL Sarah had once occupled A llquld LermlnaLor a 11000 had come Lo klll her
Lhere and now llfe had come full clrcle A llquld machlne had saved her llfe 1hls Llme she volunLarlly
wenL Lo [all

kyle had come from Lhe fuLure and !ohn had reLurned Lo Lhe fuLure lull clrcle

Was LhaL fuLure golng Lo desLroy !ohn Lhe human race Lhe LarLh and even Lhe pasL lLself?

Sarah fell asleep

A dead world Acres of skulls Sarah dled ln her sleep as her hearL flnally gave ouL


ofterdeoth experience
asslng Lhrough whaL appeared Lo be gaLes lL goL dark An oppresslve fear as lf a mounLalnous
presence saL on her chesL lf she was dead Lhen why dld she feel llke a hearL aLLack was lmmlnenL? lL
goL darker Lhan an abandoned coal mlne on a moonless nlghL



?ou could feel Lhe darkness 1hen an ecllpse ln Lhls SLyglan darkness as lf someLhlng huge had passed
overhead up ahead A red glow

A lake of flre eople swlmmlng ln molLen lava 1errlfylng Lhlngs rlpped off her cloLhes and rammed a
redhoL plLchfork up her recLum Lo force her lnLo Lhe lake









Sarah screamed only Lo have her LhroaL squeezed close 1he second deaLh SuffocaLlon ln volcanlc
magma




#1haLs for kllllng my broLher Pe was a good cop and a famlly man

WlLhouL looklng Sarah pulled her hand back Per [aller musL have burned her hand sLlcklng Lhrough Lhe
bars of her cell wlLh a clgareLLe 1he bunk bed was Loo shorL Sarah woke up Lurned over and opened
her eyes Lo look aL her [allor Sarah [umped back lL was SaLan or SkyneL or someLhlng ouL of a
nlghLmare because she had noL woken up She couldnL wake up She was dead