The Turk (2008) User Reviews (6)

The problems of friendship

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 31 January 2010]

Having got their new ID it is time for John and Cameron to go to school again, their first day doesn't go too well when first Cameron sets off a metal detector although John quickly gives the security guard a plausible explanation, later Cameron prevents John from trying to help a fellow pupil who commits suicide. It may have prevented him from drawing attention to them both but could harm the relationship between the two of them. Sarah meanwhile has a problem of her own; she has pictures of people who were involved with Miles Dyson, the man responsible for the creation of Skynet in the second film. The only one she can trace worked as an intern for Dyson but as he is now just working as a phone salesman it appears that he has nothing to do with Skynet... that is until Sarah accepts his invitation for a date and discovers that he is working on a chess computer which could be an early form of artificial intelligence. At this time the Connors still don't know that the terminator they fled from in the past is still functioning and is busy getting a new body to go over its robotic skeleton.

This was another good episode where we are reminded that Cameron is willing to let other people die to prevent John from bringing attention to himself. The scenes of the terminator getting a scientist to help him regrow his flesh were tense and at times rather bloody... not surprising when part of the process involved filling a bath with blood. I enjoyed the introduction of Agent Ellison, played by Richard T. Jones, who is now investigating the various murders, including one adult victim who's fingerprints match those of a four year old.

No One Dies in Vain

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 21 January 2009]

While John and Cameron adapt themselves in the new high-school, Sarah visits Terissa Dyson at Myles' grave with pictures of the possible inventor of SkyNet. Sarah identifies the former intern of Cyberdyne Andy Goode. Sarah discovers that Andy is working as cell phone salesman and she visits him in the store where he works. She accepts his invitation for dinner and finds that he has not concluded his computer science bachelorship, but he has been developing a powerful computer at home to play chess. Cameron has difficulties to understand the human emotions and John is affected by the attitude of a suicidal teenager. Meanwhile the Terminator seeks out a scientist and helps him in his research to regenerate his skin. Agent James Ellison arrives out of the blue in the investigation of a killing and but the agent responsible for the case restrains him.

In this episode, Sarah tries to stop the creation of SkyNet destroying the invention of a guy with great potential. John questions his fate of hero after being contained by Cameron and not saving a girl from jumping off the school roof. The Terminator regenerates his tissue with the support of a scientist, but the best part of the show is Cameron trying to understand the human feelings and emotions. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "The Turk"

Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles-The Turk

[Scarecrow-88 · 8/10 · 2 January 2011]

Sarah attempts to find the man who will be responsible for restarting Cyberdine(Cameron informs Sarah in the previous episode that another takes Miles' place as the one who leads Skynet into its ultimate goal in the destruction of the human race)by going to Miles' wife, discovering it was a pupil of his named Andy. John and Cameron(posing as his sister)go to school as Special Agent Ellison visits the crime scene of the freedom fighters. A scientist is visited by the reassembled Terminator needing synthetic skin, giving him the formula to do so. Sarah decides to get a little closer to Andy to see if he has created a computer or technology which could lead to the Skynet disaster where artificial intelligence advances to the point where humans become obsolete..John calls it Singularity. A computer Andy calls TURK 2 could be a sign that Sarah must act(Cameron says Sarah should kill him). In school a teenage girl is the constant victim of a cruel prank which results in her jump from a school building John so desperately wanted to disrupt, with Cameron not allowing such a desire due to possible identification for those out to get him. It is established that agent Ellison isn't in the good graces of fellow FBI special agent Greta Simpson(Catherine Dent)who believes the crime scene involving the freedom fighters is merely a drug related incident connected with Enrique(although Ellison believes otherwise). Adam Godley is the chem scientist who helps the T-1000 only to be repaid in sadistic fashion. Glau has some amusing moments in the girl's restroom with other teenagers who find her offensive and socially inept. There are times in this episode when Dekker's John looks over at Glau with little on(she's a cybernetic being, not human and so needs coaching on proper etiquette around the house, including chores)and must force himself to remember what she really is. John also scolds Cameron for acting weird around other high school kids. The suicide and what led up to it is pretty shocking in how it unfolds. Brendan Hines is the really likable nerd who built the Turk, and he shares surprisingly good chemistry with Headey who must hurt him in order to "save the human race." Another startling revelation from Cameron..in 2005, Sarah was supposed to have died of cancer, yet the time leap two years later changed all that. A doctor's visit proves she's in good health, but I imagine the cancer aspect doesn't end here.

Intense

[Littleman95 · 8/10 · 7 January 2021]

This show is becoming more and more intense. This is definitely like the old good Terminators. Literally. And finally John is waking up!

A Literal Bloodbath...

[Xstal · 8/10 · 8 August 2022]

A computer called The Turk, could become quite a bad guy, an adolescent attitude, it's a humanlike A. I., a machine that's marinating, in a tub of red blood cells, covers it in New York Strip, and arterially it gels.

The Turk is another compelling episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"

[tavm · 8/10 · 24 January 2008]

While Cameron and John arrive for their first day in their new high school, they encounter a metal detector. After the third beep for Cameron each time she enters, John explains she has a large metal plate on her head so she's now let through without incident. Meanwhile, Sarah visits Mrs. Dyson as she visits her late husband, Miles', grave. Miles was responsible for creating Skynet that made the machines that destroyed the world in the future. He had also destroyed it in T2. Sarah shows the widow some pictures. She recognizes one of them as an Andy who was an intern there. He now works in a cell phone store. When Sarah buys something there, he asks her out for dinner. After some hesitation, she accepts. At his house, among the items is a poster with the familiar robot hand playing chess. Andy explains that this robot is so advanced it has yet to be defeated by any human! Elsewhere, the FBI agent has a female partner to contend with. Back at school, Cameron encounters some mean girls and after they leave overhears another girl crying about being insulted by some nasty things supposedly written about her on various doors and walls. After she leaves, Cameron tells John just before they find a crowd outside waiting for someone to jump off the school roof. It's the crying girl! Unfortunately, it's too late to save her. Oh, and the terminator left for dead in the pilot episode manages, in heavily covered clothing, to write a math solution on a board of a scientist who agrees to help him try to solve it. That terminator already has the blood that's needed...Okay, while I've provided many of the plot points, I don't want to reveal too much if you want to be surprised by how it's going to end. I do like many of the humor that concerns the cyborg Cameron like her appearance in underwear at the beginning and Sarah's telling her not to kiss her "or anyone else". Her encounters with the mean girls was also funny. There's also some grossly cool images at the end and I loved Sarah's final line in narration, "Now we are all sons of bitches!" in quoting one of the atomic scientists from the '40s. Nice exposition episode. Should be even more exciting two weeks from now! Until next time... P.S. The agent's partner is played by Catherine Dent, a native of the city I live in, Baton Rouge, La., who I first saw as the Texas waitress in Steven Spielberg's mini-series, "Taken".