Sarah contacts Terissa Dyson in an effort to track down Skynet's creators. The search leads her to a computer programmer named Andy Goode (Brendan Hines) who once interned at Cyberdyne. Meanwhile, John and Cameron try to fit in at a new school. This proves difficult when John tries to save a girl (who is involved in a sexual situation at school with a student or teacher that is becoming public) from committing suicide; however Cameron interferes and the girl dies. John becomes furious and lashes out at both Sarah and Cameron, asking that if he can't save one person how is he supposed to save the human race. Sarah's investigation of Andy Goode reveals that he has built a learning computer designed to play chess and that it is showing random behavior in solving problems different ways. Cameron believes he should die; however Sarah ends up setting fire to Andy's home, destroying the supercomputer and sparing his life.
Meanwhile Cromartie has reassembled himself and with the help of a doctor working on a formula for synthetic skin (the Terminator gives the doctor the working solution for the formula) in order to re-obtain a human appearance. Afterwards, the doctor is killed and Cromartie removes his eyes and smears blood over the skin formula, wiping it out.
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