Episode 216: Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep

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Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep
Air Date	February 27, 2009
Written by	Natalie Chaidez & Denise Thé
Director	Scott Lautanen
Prior episode	"Desert Cantos"
Next episode	"Ourselves Alone"

Sarah checks herself into a sleep clinic

John tries to rescue Sarah from a sleep clinic

Sarah sleeps while her hospital roommate's bed mysteriously catches fire

Sarah's Insomnia Profile

Things Have Gone Awry in the Connor Home

Sarah is dragged away from a fire

Haunted by nightmares of the man she killed in the factory, Sarah checks in to a sleep clinic. When suspicious things begin happening, Sarah suspects Skynet may be using the facility for brain-mapping.

Synopsis

Sarah investigates Western Iron & Metal, a company related to Desert Canyon Heat and Air. As she tries to break in, she notices a coyote and is suddenly tasered from behind.

Sarah later wakes up in a sleep clinic, having had trouble sleeping and nearly fell down the stairs. Her roommate, Dana, asks that she keeps her addiction to smoking a secret. Later, Sarah notices that Dana was injected with a sedative of some sort and follows the nurse who administrated it to a room with a coded lock. Later, Dana's bed catches fire while she is sedated, wounded her seriously, as Sarah is led away by the clinic people trying to save her. The nurse gives her pills to relax and advises that she should take them now; she pretends to. However, she is also hit with the sedative. While still conscious, she has John help her break into the locked room, finding huge amounts of data on the human brain. She has John delete all info on her but the nurse learns of her disappearance and returns to the room. John hides as Sarah pretends to have sleep-walked. The nurse then acts in a terminator-like fashion, discussing the human brain. She suspects that someone helped Sarah get in and demands to know. When Sarah continues to feign ignorance, the terminator-nurse attacks her. John then comes up and shoots the nurse. Sarah then takes the gun and brings it to the nurse's forehead when suddenly she awakens like a terminator and grabs the gun, shooting John and then Sarah.

All this turns out to be a drug-induced dream, as Sarah was captured by Ed Winston, the man she thought she killed, having been treated at a private clinic. He interrogates her as to who she works for. Twice she tried to fight or escape, twice she failed. She unsuccessfully tries to convince Ed that his own bosses destroyed the factory and are probably hunting him. She also goads him about how his wife would feel if she saw him right now. Ed figures out that she has a son and plans to use Sarah as bait to lure him into a trap. He later gets a call from his superiors and decides to kill her as they don't need her alive anymore. However, she recovers from the effects of the drugs, gets out of her cuffs, cutting her wrists in the process before brawling with Ed. She stabs him in the left eye with a needle before pinning him to the ground, reminding herself that he is real before shooting him in the head killing him (for real). Sarah then drives away from the scene without any sign of regret.

Continuity

Alan Park is directly mentioned.
The "death" of Ed Winston plays an important part in this episode.
Sarah's potential for cancer is referenced.
Diana Winston is used by Sarah in the "dream" as a weapon against Ed.
It is revealed at the end of this episode that Winston actually survived his first encounter with Sarah.
This episode marks the first time in which Sarah really does kill another human - the same one she thought she killed previously. This time, she kills Winston in cold blood and shows no remorse as she drives away.

Notes

The vehicle Sarah was driving at the beginning of the episode was produced by GM Motors Chevrolet division. It appeared to be either a Chevy Suburban or a Chevy Tahoe model.
Sarah Connor gave up smoking after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
The Nurse Ratched nickname is a reference to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
John Connor was born via emergency Caesarean section.
Sarah Connor's file shows text from the Wikipedia page on Insomnia.
During one of Sarah Connor's dreams, a female terminator posing as a sleep doctor says "Thank you for explaining" to another member of the sleep clinic. This is one of the phrases most frequently said by Cameron, hinting to the viewer that the sleep doctor is a terminator.
This is the second time that Sarah Connor has dreamed that a terminator has shot and killed her son. In the Pilot, Sarah dreamed that a terminator shot and killed John. Shortly after, Sarah left her fiance Charley Dixon and went on the run with John.
It is revealed that Sarah's "nightmares" are actually reality, and that her experience at the sleep clinic is a drug-induced dream.
Sarah is not present in some scenes taking place in her own dream.
For this episode at least, the opening/closing monologue by Sarah is back.
It has been theorized that Nurse Hobson could be an I-950 series infiltrator based upon her actions in the episode (taunting Sarah Connor, collapsing after only three shots to the torso, playing dead); however, it remains unconfirmed on if the character was an I-950, a TS-300, a standard terminator, or something else.

Monologue

Opening
"Midnight is the witching hour. If you believe that kind of thing and most people won't admit it if they do. Midnight is the time when a door opens from our world into the next and we are visited by dark spirits of the shadow lands. The Incubus, the Succubus, the old hag. Visitors are known by many names but each story bears the same marks: The demons come after midnight and the first three hours of the new day when we are alone and vulnerable, deep asleep and helpless when we cannot move. They lay on us, press on us, suffocate us, they take from us what is most precious: our lives, our love, our sanity, our sleep. If you believe in that kind of thing."

Closing
"A spirit sits on a man's chest. She is strong, beautiful. She is here to steal his children. She is here to steal his future. He is paralyzed. The terror in him will burst his heart if he cannot control it. She is a nightmare, a demon woman. The oldest and most enduring story told by man. The witching hour is controlled by witches. She is a bad dream. She is a bad bitch "

Quotes

Cameron: Scrambled or hard-boiled?

John: Uh, scrambled.

Cameron: You need a carbohydrate that makes up at least fifteen percent of our daily allowance. (Cameron puts pancakes on to John's plate)

John: Those won't be as good as yours. (John and Cameron smile at each other)

Sarah: You made pancakes?

Cameron: I added a teaspoon of vanilla to your recipe.

Sarah: I don't have a recipe.

Cameron: The recipe on the box.

Sarah: (Sarah looks at John poking at his pancakes) Not as good as hers? (Referring to Cameron)

John: Not as good as food. Tomorrow I'll bring you something real to eat. They have anything to say?

Sarah: About what?

John: About what? About why you're not sleeping. They figured out why?

Sarah: Besides the fact the world's about to end?

John: You used to sleep well.

Sarah: I shouldn't be here. I should be at home.

John: We're fine at home. Everything's fine.

Sarah: This was a mistake.

John: No, this...this is necessary. Mom, you're useless like this. Look at yourself. You haven't slept in two weeks. You fell down the stairs. If you don't take care of yourself, something worse might happen. You need to get better. I need you to get better. Don't forget...(John looks at Cameron)...you're not her. Please, get some sleep.

Ed Winston: (Ed starts eating a bag of sunflower seeds) So, you wanna know who I am? That's the first thing most people ask. First thing that comes out of their mouths when the gag comes off. "Who are you?" They keep asking it over and over again. Psychiatrists say naming things give people power over them. They're dead wrong on that.

Sarah: I already know who you are.

Ed Winston: Oh yeah. Right. I forgot. And, you found Western Iron & Metal. (Ed grabs Sarah's leg that was shot.) Of course, why anything else from the girl who used a cross-dresser and a hypnotherapist to find us. You know, I gotta admit, I didn't see that one coming.

Sarah: You won't see the next one coming either.

Ed Winston: Oh no, I beg to differ, ma'am. I beg to differ. So, who do you work for?

Sarah: I work alone.

Ed Winston: Somebody blew up our factory while you were getting patched up. Was that your boyfriend on the phone? What, you guys some kind of Bonnie/Clyde type of operation? (Ed slaps Sarah.) I said, was that your Clyde on the phone?

Sarah: Why don't you come closer and I'll tell you.

Ed Winston: So you can bite my face off. No, I don't think so. See those seeds? I go through about a bag in three hours. (Ed begins to fill a syringe with a serum) Old habit that I picked up when I quit smoking. Before I finish that bag, you're gonna talk. Special recipe. It'll have you singing like Sunday choir.

Ed Winston: (Ed continues to eat his sunflower seeds) That's, uh, quite a collection. Bullet wounds, stabbings...emergency C-section. (Sarah looks down to see her jeans button undone, and does it back up) That's plenty old, that last one. Your child must be 15, maybe 20 by now?

Sarah: They'll kill you. Just like they killed everyone else.

Ed Winston: They?

Sarah: Your bosses. Calipa. They blew up your factory. Killed thirty of their own people.

Ed Winston: Lady, you're insane. Why would anyone blow up their own factory?

Sarah: To hide what you were building.

Ed Winston: And what was that?

Sarah: The end.

Ed Winston: You're very dramatic.

Sarah: Diana. Thought you were a good man. What'd you think she'd say if she saw you now?

Ed Winston: You...you leave me wife out of this. You crazy bitch.

Sarah: Salary must be good.

Ed Winston: It's the best part of the job.

Sarah: And the worst?

Ed Winston: You saw the tapes.

Sarah: Yeah.

Ed Winston: So you know.

Sarah: Yes.

Ed Winston: The first one was the hardest.

Sarah: Frank? Your neighbor. His son played lacrosse.

Ed Winston: He borrowed my lawnmower. Every Friday. He never cleaned the bag.

Sarah: Why would they want him dead?

Ed Winston: He kept the books. Handled the overseas business. He was a drunk.

Sarah: Overseas. So your bosses are foreign.

Ed Winston: They fixed me up after you shot me. Put in a private clinic. And I thought it was because they were being kind, and then I realized they were just patching me up so I could do my job.

Sarah: What's your job?

Ed Winston: Like I said...the first one was the hardest.

Sarah: You were my first. Seem surprised.

Ed Winston: Well, I just...I just figured a bad ass gal like yourself...

Sarah: Never.

Ed Winston: Well, glad I didn't break your streak.

Cameron: (Cameron is looking at a painting.) Salvador Dali often explored the subconscious in the dream world in his work. Are your dreams like this painting?

John: (looks at the painting) Err... everyone's dreams are different. I guess it depends on what's stuck in your head. [he puts money in the vending machine but it fails to release his purchase] Gaargh! C'mon! [he hits the machine]

Cameron: What's it like to dream?

John: Oh... Umm... It's sorta like you're in a play or a movie, and it looks real and it feels real... [shrugs]

Cameron: How do you know it's not real?

John: Sometimes you don't. [he hits the machine again] Argh!

[Cameron approaches the vending machine and raises her fist]

John: Hey, hey, be careful!

[Cameron firmly taps the glass and several packets of chips fall out of their stalls]

John: [takes his packet from Cameron] Yes, thank you.

[Sarah is pointing a gun at Ed Winston who is lying on the ground]

Sarah: [with hatred in her voice] You're real! You're real! You're real! (Sarah pulls the trigger shooting Ed in the head.)

Q&A

Q: In "Allison from Palmdale", Sarah tells Kacy that she gave birth to John while hiking in South America. At the end of that episode, she admits that the part about his father being beside her was a lie, but states that the rest is true. But in this episode, it is revealed that John was surgically removed from Sarah — a procedure which could only be performed at a hospital. Does this mean that Sarah's entire story about giving birth to John in the jungle was a lie?

A: Possibly. In any case, Sarah was telling Kacy that what she had told her was the way things could have been. On the other hand, Ed said it was an "emergency C-section", judging from Sarah's scars. So it might be that he just noticed it was quite a hack job and about in the right spot for a C-section, which could be just what happens if you get patched up by an EMT at a jungle station.

Q: If all the events at the sleep clinic were part of Sarah's drug-induced dream, how did she also dream the conversation scenes between John and Cameron? Do they represent her fears of John becoming too close to Cameron?

A: Probably. The interaction of John and Cameron was mainly about things a mother would worry about, like nourishment and making pancakes, and much more flirtatious than other recent episodes. On the other hand, Sarah knows John and Cameron well, so some of it is at least bound to be based on observation and deduction.

Q: How did Ed Winston find Sarah in the first place?

A: Sarah was investigating Western Iron & Metal, a company related to Desert Canyon Heat and Air and it's possible that Winston just happened to be there for other reasons.

Q: Is Ed really dead this time? As in really, REALLY dead?

A: Most likely. She did shoot him in the head, not something that most people could survive.

Q: Why would Cameron randomly walk into johns room in her underwear?

A1: This is a dream sequence. In "Complications" Sarah expresses her concern through several dreams that Cameron will one day replace her as John's protector, which couples with an earlier statement wherein she told Cameron; "I don't like the way he responds to you" ("Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today").

A2: This is also a reference to "The Turk" when Cameron casually strode past Sarah's room in jut her underwear, making John very uncomfortable in the process (something that Sarah picked up on).

Q: What is the significance of the coyote tattoo ?

In most cultures, especially Native American, the coyote represents the dream world. It also has ties to the concepts of chaos and in myths is a "joker", similar to the Norse God Loki. The Coyote is an animal often seen on visions quests. Sarah may have dreamed about the coyote because most of the episode was a dream, or because the chaos in her life she is trying to clean herself of (shown through the janitor).

Q: What is the significance of the conversation between Cameron and John about dreams ?