Complications

Episode Number:9

Season:2

Original Air Date: November 17, 2008

Writer: Steven DePaul
Josh Friedman (developer)
John Wirth (written by)
Director:

Special Guest(s):(Richard Schiff) as Fischer (elder)

(Dorian Harewood) as
Dr. Sherman

(Stephanie Jacobsen) as Jesse

(Adam Busch) as
Fischer (younger)

(John Kelly) as
Baldwin

Episode Synopsis

Sarah turns to Dr. Sherman when she begins having nightmares, Jesse tries to convince Derek that she has captured an important figure from the future, and John and Cameron discover that Cromartie's body is missing.

Plot Danglers

The show opens with a dream sequence: Sarah and Cameron are at Cromartie's burial site in Mexico. Sarah watches herself and Cameron as Cameron waters a trio of cactii in the form of a tiangle. Suddenly, the cactii sprout up from the ground. John appears in front of them as they turn a metallic silver and grab him.
Sarah awakens in the back of the truck on the way home from Mexico and has John pull over so she can vomit. Cameron wonders if she might be pregnant, but Sarah says its probably stomach flu. Before getting up to get back into the truck, Sarah spots a small tortoise upside-down under the truck. She picks it up, then sets it down on its feet a safe distance away

John and Cameron travel back to Mexico to finish their business with Cromartie. On the way there, John asks her why she has a foot hanging out the window. She says that she's trying to feel what it's like to "get away from it all." John dismisses her statement, saying she doesn't know how to feel. She says she does experience sensation and she is capable of feeling, otherwise she would not be of much value.

At the burial site, Cameron and John attempt to dig up Cromartie's body, only to find one of his boots. John immediately assumes that Ellison made off with the body, because he was the only other person who knew about it. They immediately high-tail back to L.A.

Outside Ellison's house, Cameron asks John about the tortoise and why Sarah helped it. John explains that most people will try to help those who need it. Then Cameron rightly observes that not all people are like that. When they see Ellison pull into his driveway, they move in. Ellison enters his home, only to get thrown around by Cameron. John asks about the whereabouts of Cromartie's body. Ellison insists he doesn't know where it is; John believes him and tells Cameron to let him go. As she does, she rolls him onto his stomach, as if he was a tortoise.

Best Moments

when rolls Ellison on his Stomach

Best Quotes

Cameron: Is she pregnant?

John: Why in the hell would you even ask that?

Cameron: Kacy vomited when she was pregnant. You're vomiting. It's morning. That's when it happens.

John: Just shut up.

Cameron: I don't think you understand how we work. I have sensation. I feel. I wouldn't be worth much if I couldn't feel.

Cameron: It didn't seem like much of a threat. We're not built to be cruel.

John: Yeah, that's one for cyborgs.

Cameron: Yes. That's one for us.

Episode Trivia

Cameron does not understand why Sarah helped the tortoise
Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (as well as in its movie adaptation, Blade Runner (1982)) explores the theme of empathy towards animals, people, and androids,as well as the inability of androids to feel such empathy

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