kk – I did understand what you were trying to say. Yes, there's only one TOK-715 body and yes, eventually he'll have to send Cameron back to protect his younger self. BUT rest assured, there will be a Jameron ending. Even when it seems like there won't be. I would never write an angsty ending for them.
TK-MR – I can't really explain how Andy is still alive without spoiling the surprise. No, it's not a fake, Derek did kill Andy Goode, but as for how Billy Wisher still exists in this future, it's something you'll find out later.
Kirirur – I loved that deleted scene also. I was wondering why they deleted it as well, but once I thought about it, I realized that if that scene had aired in "Tower" it would have been less of a shock when Cameron gives John the necklace in "Ourselves Alone." They probably just wanted to keep it a surprise.
Previously on Born to Fight: [Allison is captured and looks up to see a mirror image of herself] TOK715: You shouldn't have run. You're just making things worse for yourself. ALLISON: I'll never help you get to John Connor. TOK715: (snaps Allison's neck) You already did. [Pipe bomb destroys a Triple 8. A young girl steps out. Kyle looks shocked.] KYLE: Star? You're alive?! [Derek is captured and taken into the basement.] DEREK: Allison… You're dead… TOK715: I want to make a deal with you. Tell me where I can find John Connor, and Kyle will live. DEREK: Depot II. Connor's at Depot II. [TOK715 is intercepted by John Henry] JOHN HENRY: I know you. TOK715: And I know you. JOHN HENRY: Will you join us? [TOK715 enters John's room.] JOHN: Are you here to kill me, Cameron? CAMERON: No. I am not the enemy. [John inserts her memories onto her chip.] CAMERON: John. You did it… JOHN: I promised I'd always bring you back. [Kyle is on patrol at Firebase with Star when he sees an HK carrying a giant engine.] KYLE: That HK is going to show us exactly where that secret facility is. It's out there. And we're gonna find it. CAMERON: I went to put Allison's body in cold storage. JOHN: I have to get her out of there. CAMERON: She's dead, John. JOHN: And I won't let her be used as some kind of experiment! We're going back on that prison barge. And we're going to find her.
Chapter Twenty Five:
Born to Discover
Skynet Prison Barge
John shuddered involuntarily as he hauled himself up the rope that anchored the prison barge in the water. "This is the second time I've voluntarily boarded this ship," he murmured as he pulled himself up over the edge.
For a moment he lay flat on the deck, his eyes on the tower, watching for any movement. Cameron came up beside him. "The deck is clear," she stated. "They must not have any prisoners at this time. Otherwise there would be a sentry posted in case of an escape."
"You mean they don't have any live prisoners," John retorted beneath his breath. He rose slowly to his feet and started walking over to the porthole.
"What was the first?"
John paused with his hand on the latch and turned to face Cameron, puzzled. "The first what?"
"You said this is the second time you've boarded this ship voluntarily," Cameron responded. "When was the first?"
John looked down at the floor. "When I came to rescue her the first time."
"Oh."
There was a long uncomfortable silence before Cameron spoke up. "You loved her."
John swallowed hard. He had been dreading this discussion ever since she'd been back and he knew it would only be a matter of time before she brought it up. "Yeah, I did," he said softly. "I mean, how could I not? She… she reminded me of you." He hesitated, looking up at her with pain on his face. "Is that… do you feel like I betrayed you?"
"No," she replied. It hadn't taken her long to respond so he figured she truly meant it. "It's good that you had someone."
"Yeah…" he muttered.
"And I'm sorry," she added.
"For what?"
"For taking her away from you."
John pursed his lips and looked back at the porthole. "Yeah, well… let's just get her back now."
He opened the porthole and climbed down the ladder into the blackness. They didn't dare risk using a flashlight, so Cameron took the lead, her night vision guiding her through the dark. John kept as close to her as he could.
"All the lights are out," he murmured. "This is weird. There's no one here."
"This is the prison level," Cameron explained. "Would you post guards in the prison level if there were no prisoners?"
He frowned. "I see your point." They reached another ladder that led down to a lower deck. "Is this where they keep the prisoners? Down here?"
"They keep subjects down in the laboratory," Cameron corrected. "Not prisoners. Prisoners are alive."
John scowled. He started to climb down, but Cameron suddenly spoke up.
"Did you love her more than me?"
He paused with his foot on the ladder rung and turned to her, face twisted in agony. "Cameron…"
She simply stared, waiting.
He shook his head, taking a step away from the ladder. "I loved her different than you. Because she was different from you. Of course, you both looked the same. You both loved Chopin and dancing. But she was human and you're a cyborg. She represented everything that's good in a human: kindness, love, joy. Just like you represent everything that's good in a machine: loyalty, understanding, devotion."
He moved closer to her, taking her hands in his and squeezing gently. "Don't ever think I love you any less."
Her eyes lingered on him and she smiled softly. "Thank you for explaining."
**************
Topanga Canyon Rim
Kyle stopped the jeep and stepped out quietly, walking to the edge of the canyon and staring down. The HK with its precious cargo was flying into a hanger down in the canyon itself, into some kind of research facility.
This is it, Kyle thought to himself excitedly. It had to be the location of Skynet's secret weapon - the time machine. What else would they be using that huge engine for?
Star's eyes widened into the familiar look of horror and Kyle spun around to see a Terminator endo patrolling the canyon edge, heading right for them and the jeep. Kyle ducked down, but if the machine hadn't spotted him already, it soon would be close enough to. Kyle cursed under his breath and grabbed a C4 charge out of his bag and threw it into the jeep before grasping Star's hand and dragging her down the rocky incline into the canyon, keeping behind the large rock formations and laying a few more charges as he did.
Looking up he could see the endo approaching the jeep. Kyle winced. He hated having to make noise and draw attention to himself, but he pressed the button on the detonator. The jeep exploded, sending a tremendous boom throughout the canyon, echoing off the walls. The vehicle was completely destroyed, but Kyle knew better than to think that the Terminator would go with it. At best, it would be damaged and immobile for a few minutes. At the worst…
Well, he wouldn't think about the worst.
Kyle dragged Star further down the canyon wall, ducking behind rocks. There were many caves worn into the canyon side, so Kyle picked one and slipped into it, setting another C4 charge near the entrance, in case the Terminator patrol from above found their hiding place.
"Start making more pipe bombs," he said hastily, dumping the contents of his backpack on the ground and sorting through the supplies. Star grabbed some pieces and went to work almost mechanically. This was something she'd been doing her entire life.
They were literally caught between a rock and a hard place. The Terminators in the facility below would have seen the explosion from his jeep and would send another patrol to investigate. Even if they didn't think it a very big threat, he still had that first patrol terminator that was still up at the top of the canyon, hopefully still incapacitated temporarily by the explosion.
There was no way he could get out of here on his own. He needed help. Grabbing his radio unit, he sent out a shortwave SOS transmission to any Resistance fighters in the area, asking for assistance near Topanga Canyon.
"Copy you, soldier," said a voice in reply. "We're south-east of your position and can be there in a few minutes."
Kyle breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you." Maybe when the rescue team showed up, he could convince them to take out the Skynet facility, destroy the secret weapon altogether. He wasn't going to fail this mission again.
He heard the roar of an engine and crawled to the entrance of the cave, looking down to see an HK come flying out of the facility. Kyle frowned, wondering where it was going.
He and Star sat in silence for a few minutes, waiting for the rescue team when suddenly he heard panicked screaming over the radio.
"Pilot!" Kyle hissed, his tone hushed for fear of a Terminator picking up the sound. "Respond!"
"Under--- attack!" the pilot replied. The next thing Kyle heard was a strangled cry, a huge explosion, and then a dead silence. He dropped the radio to his side, mouth open in horror.
"It was a trap," he whispered. "An ambush. Skynet knew they were coming…"
His gaze fell on his radio and suddenly it all made sense. Why had that HK come out of the facility and start heading in the direction of the rescue team? How had it known they were coming?
"They're hacking our communications…"
Star looked up at him with wide eyes and Kyle crawled to the cave entrance again to see the HK that had left a few minutes ago return and enter the hanger again, having completed its assassination mission.
"We're stuck," he stated. "I can't call in another rescue team. Skynet will just shoot them down too."
Star strung together some sign language and Kyle shook his head. "What kind of code? What code would the Resistance be able to pick up on that Skynet couldn't?"
Star stuck out her lip and narrowed her eyebrows at him.
"Connor?" Kyle questioned. "Something only Connor would know?"
Suddenly a plan began forming in Kyle's brain and he quickly radioed for Serrano Point. If anyone could get hold of John to deliver a coded message, they could.
A vaguely familiar voice came from the unit. "Major Perry."
"Not another word!" Kyle hissed into the radio. "They're listening in. They've hacked our communications, we're compromised."
"Reese?" Perry questioned. "Where are you?"
Kyle put a hand on his head. "I can't tell you. Didn't you hear me? They're listening to us right now!"
"What did you find?"
Kyle hesitated. He couldn't admit anything, not with Skynet listening in. He couldn't tell Perry that he had found Skynet's secret weapon. If he did, Skynet would move it before the Resistance could mount their attack.
He tried to make his voice sound casual. "I don't know. Doesn't seem like much, just some kind of Skynet outpost. We just followed an HK here thinking it might be some kind of headquarters. Doesn't look that way now. But I'm still trapped."
"Okay… I'm going to contact Connor."
"Be careful," Kyle warned. "I don't know how wide a range they are able to hack. They could be able to listen in, hear every word."
"Thanks for the warning," Perry replied. "I'll let Connor know."
"Connor's not in Kansas anymore," Kyle said, increasing the volume and pitch of his voice to make himself sound frightened. Or crazy. "He came by tornado."
"What?" Perry's voice was filled with complete confusion.
"One flying monkey," Kyle added. "Lots of tin men."
"Reese?" Perry demanded. "What's the matter? Have you gone mad?"
"Tap your heels together four times," Kyle replied lightly. "Kansas to Oz."
"Reese!"
Kyle disconnected the call, letting out a deep breath. Star was staring at him quizzically and signed something that translated: You sounded like an idiot.
"I had to," Kyle shot back indignantly. "I needed to give him the code without Skynet realizing it was a code. Therefore, it needed to sound like I was a little crazy… you know, sleep deprived or suffering from heatstroke or dehydration or something else where you start losing sense of reality." She raised an eyebrow and he shook his head. "It doesn't matter what they think. All that matters is that John hears that message."
Star crossed her arms. And understands it, she signed back.
"True," Kyle admitted. "That would help too."
**************
Skynet Prison Barge
Lower Level
The laboratory level, just like the levels above it, was completely empty. Abandoned. No machines, no humans, no nothing.
John walked through the room, feeling a deep sense of hopelessness. What had happened here? This place was a research lab, complete with computer terminals and suspension tubes for Skynet's specimens. But all those tubes were empty as well.
It was just like Skynet had packed up and left.
Which made no sense.
Cameron looked up from a computer screen. "She's not here. Subject 715, transferred."
John came up behind her, staring at the monitor. Why hadn't Skynet destroyed all their records? Why hadn't they destroyed the computers? "To where? Where was she transferred to?"
Cameron shook her head. "I don't know. It's classified."
John felt anger starting to rise. "So now what? We just give up? I… I fail her again?"
"John…" Cameron began, in a tone that sounded almost condescending. "She's no longer alive. She won't consider this a failure."
"But they could be… doing things…" he felt sick to his stomach just thinking about what kind of experiments Skynet was using her for. "It's not right."
"No," Cameron agreed. "It isn't. But if you don't know where she is, you cannot do anything about it."
He paced back and forth across the room, staring at the computer terminals and suspension tubes that were in the laboratory. There was nothing that helped him piece together what Skynet had been working on. Or why they had suddenly up and left.
"What were they doing to her here?"
He'd meant it to be rhetorical, but Cameron answered anyway. "I don't know."
"Where would they transfer her to? And why?"
Cameron was still looking in the log. "All the specimens were transferred. It could simply mean they were clearing the facility and they were transporting them somewhere else to be disposed of."
"Disposed of…" John gritted his teeth in disgust. "Nice wording."
"How would you prefer I word it?" Cameron asked logically. "She's already dead."
"I know, I know." He sighed. "You're right. It's just… I just didn't want to dishonor her like that. I wanted to give her a proper burial. To not let her be used by Skynet to somehow destroy us."
Cameron was still staring at him blankly and he decided that maybe she needed an analogy. "Think of my mother," he offered. "How would she feel if she knew that her body was being used as some kind of Skynet experiment? That they were using her to somehow create new ways to kill humans?"
"She wouldn't feel anything," Cameron responded evenly. "She'd be dead."
John sighed. "She is dead. I'm sorry. I guess I was just… trying to make you understand something that… you can't."
Cameron cocked her head, staring at him that familiar, curious way. "I understand. I understand that you valued her in life and you wish to honor her in death."
John looked up, furrowing his brow. "You do? You understand that?"
"But I also understand that your time could be better spent fighting. Don't you think that is what Allison would want you to do? Rather than chasing ghosts?"
He shrugged sheepishly. "Never thought of it that way." He knew exactly what Allison would say if she knew he was here trying to rescue her body from Skynet's clutches when he should be working to stop Skynet once and for all. "She… she would want me to do my job."
"Then maybe you should."
John's radio buzzed and he quickly picked it up. "John Connor."
"Connor, this is Major Perry, Serrano Point."
"Acknowledged."
"We have a problem, General," Perry began. "Kyle's trapped somewhere near Skynet territory, close enough to where they could hack into his radio signal."
John's mouth went dry. "They hacked it?"
"They were listening to every word he said," Perry agreed. "I don't want to say anything over the radio cuz we don't know how wide a range they are able to listen in from. How fast can you get here?"
John glanced up at Cameron. "Give me a few hours."
"We'll be waiting."
John clicked the radio off and started to the door following Cameron. As he walked past everything in lab, he couldn't get that nagging feeling out of his head that something wasn't right.
"There's one thing that's bothering me," he said. "This facility. There's no one here. They've abandoned it, they're all gone. All the machines have left. It doesn't make sense. If they were done using this place, why not destroy it? Is it a trick? Did they want us to find this? Why leave it all here?"
Cameron considered his quarry before responding, "Because they're not done. They'll be back."
"But where did they go? Why would they all go?"
"They're preparing for an attack. Something big, bigger than anything you've faced before."
And it suddenly all made sense. Skynet was preparing to defend its secret weapon against John's massive onslaught. It was gathering all its Terminators, ready to wipe out the Resistance in one final swoop. He grabbed his radio again and dialed into John Henry's frequency.
"Mr. Connor," John Henry greeted pleasantly. "I assume Cameron is with you, too?"
"Yes," Cameron replied simply.
"Can you tell if Skynet is listening in on this call?" John asked.
"No," John Henry replied. "They are not. The block is holding. We are both far enough away from any major Skynet zone. The signal is strong."
"Good. We have a problem," John began. "We're on the Skynet prison barge, but they've abandoned it. They're preparing, mounting for an attack. They're going to defend that TDE with everything they've got, so we're going to need you and your rebellion."
"I can hack into the wireless network of the Terminators and make it easier for them to be captured and reprogrammed."
"That's great," John admitted. "But I don't have time to do that. I have to go rescue Kyle Reese. I think he may have found the TDE which means we'll be preparing for our attack. I can't go around and capture and reprogram new Terminators."
"But you can," Cameron stated to John Henry.
"Yes, I can," John Henry agreed. "I will bring my army to meet you whenever you begin your attack."
"Alright, I'll let you know…"
"Oh, we'll know," John Henry said. "Ms. Weaver will keep us informed."
"Yeah," John grumbled. "I have a feeling she impersonates my soldiers just so she can keep up with what I'm doing."
"Don't be angry with her, Mr. Connor," John Henry replied. "She wants the same thing you do. You need her."
John scowled. "Yeah. It'd just be nice if she would tell me things straight." He hung up and turned to Cameron. "You heard him. Let's go back to Serrano."
***************
Serrano Point
Radio Room
John and Cameron stepped through the doors of the communications chamber of Serrano Point and instantly the room was silent. Most of the soldiers in the room didn't react to Cameron, since they'd been at Serrano Point the entire time and had never met Allison Young.
But John saw the confusion and shock on Major Perry's face when he laid eyes on Cameron. Perry had known Allison. Not well, but he'd known her. It had been Perry who had run to get Lauren when Allison had been critically wounded by a Gray infiltrator.
"Allison…?" Perry questioned hesitantly. "I thought you were dead."
"I'll explain later," John replied hastily.
Perry's brow furrowed with confusion, but he nodded briskly, getting right down to business. Most of the other soldiers who had been staring at Cameron followed suit.
"Where is he?" John demanded.
"We don't know," Perry replied. "He can't tell us. He claims it's just some Skynet outpost but that could just be because they were listening and he didn't want to tip them off. We can't know for sure. He started going crazy at the end. At first I thought he was just uttering nonsense, but he mentioned your name right beforehand and now I think it could be some kind of code."
"Let's hear it," John ordered.
Perry gestured to one of the technicians at the communications panel. "Yelkov? Play transmission, please."
The young Russian tech nodded quickly. "Yes, keptin. I mean, Major. Sorry. Forgot your promotion."
Perry rolled his eyes. "Kid, that happened over a year ago."
Yelkov flushed. "Aye! Sorry, sir."
"Just play transmission."
Yelkov quickly activated the recording and John listened as Kyle's voice streamed through the speakers. "Connor's not in Kansas anymore. He came by tornado."
Yelkov paused the transmission and Perry turned to John. "That's the first part. What the heck does that mean?"
"Maybe iz temporary insanity," Yelkov suggested helpfully.
John shook his head quickly. "No… it's a code. A code that only I would know."
"Vhat kind of code?" the tech questioned. "Iz like nothing I've ever heard. How do ve figure it out?"
"I know what it means," Cameron spoke up.
Yelkov turned to her, surprised. "You do?"
John simply smiled, having figured it out only a few seconds after Cameron had.
"It's the Wizard of Oz," Cameron explained. "In the book, Dorothy is transported to a new world by a tornado. When she arrives, she tells Toto 'I don't think were in Kansas anymore'."
Yelkov shrugged helplessly. "Vhat does that mean?"
"It means Kyle found the secret weapon," John announced. The phrase 'Connor's not in Kansas anymore' referred to him coming from the future. Perry, Yelkov, and the rest of the tech team exchanged impressed glances, and no one bothered to question how John had known that.
"Okay," Yelkov continued. "And ze rest?" He clicked the transmission back on and Kyle's voice came out once more. "One flying monkey, lots of tin men. Tap your heels together four times. Kansas to Oz."
"Ve understand ze tin men part," Yelkov supplied.
John cracked a smile. "I know what he's saying." And I have to admit, Kyle, it was pretty ingenious. "Flying monkey could be an HK or some other kind of flying transport. Maybe even aerostats, but most likely an HK. He's saying that there is at least one HK and lots of Terminators in the area."
"Okay," Perry agreed. "What about 'Kansas to Oz'? Is he referring to Kansas Bunker?"
"Kansas Bunker doesn't exist anymore," John replied. "Kansas simply means home. Home to him is Firebase. It's where he and his brother were stationed before Derek's capture. And Oz is the ideal destination, the place everyone was trying to find. In this case, it's the location of the secret weapon."
"How does that help us?" Perry demanded.
"The phrase is 'tap your heels together three times', not four," John replied. "Yelkov, what's in a four mile radius of Firebase?"
Yelkov started to search his computer, but it was Cameron who found the answer first.
"Topanga Canyon," she stated.
"Topanga Canyon," John repeated. "Is that it? Would that be a location Skynet chose?"
Cameron nodded. "It's presence in the canyon is very tactical. They are unable to be infiltrated or ambushed. They can see enemies coming down the canyon. It is well-protected."
"Then that's it," John said. "Yelkov, get Kyle on the line."
"Yes, sir," the tech replied. "If I may ask, how did you figure it out?"
"Kansas to Oz, tap your heels four times," John repeated. "To get from Firebase to Skynet, walk four miles. That's where they are and that's where I'm going."
As Yelkov radioed Kyle, John noticed that Perry was studying Cameron. "She's one of them, isn't she?" he asked. "A machine."
A few of the techs, including Yelkov, looked up, appearing startled and uneasy. John stared back unashamed.
"She's on our side," he announced.
"Our side?" Perry repeated. "What? Like reprogrammed to fight for us now?"
John shrugged. "You could say that." Not with Cameron particularly.
"And you're sure that it works?" Perry questioned. "The reprogramming, I mean?" He stared directly at Cameron. "You're supposed to help us?"
"My purpose is to protect John Connor," Cameron recited. "Without John, my life has no purpose."
"Your life…" Perry murmured.
John stiffened. "You were going to call it something else?" he asked icily.
Perry slowly shook his head. "I'm not questioning you, General. In fact, I think it could be a good thing." He glanced over at his techs. "Who better to fight a machine than a machine?"
"Yelkov," John ordered firmly. The tech quickly went back to work radioing Kyle. A few seconds later, John heard his father's voice over the speakers.
"Serrano Point?"
"Kyle, do you read me?"
"Copy, General," Kyle said, his voice sounding tremendously relieved.
John smiled. "We're off to see the Wizard." We're coming to Oz, to Topanga Canyon.
Kyle chuckled softly. "Just follow the yellow brick road, sir."
John hurriedly cut the communication and strode toward the door.
"Shall I prepare an extraction team?" Perry asked.
"No," John replied easily. "I'll take care of it."
"You're going out there alone?"
John glanced over at Cameron. "Who says I'll be alone?"
Perry looked from one to the other, frowning as John started for the door once more. "You're taking the machine with you?"
John whirled around, his face flushed with anger. "Her name is Cameron. I'd like you to remember that."
He turned and followed Cameron out the door without another word.
**************
Topanga Canyon
Kyle leaned back against the rock wall of his temporary cave home, feeling satisfied. Connor had received and interpreted his message. Kyle was increasingly glad that he had found that Wizard of Oz book in John's room. Not only had it held a letter from the legend herself, Sarah Connor, and a message for Kyle Reese, but as it turns out, those pages held another secret, something that both Kyle and John now knew and could use to communicate through code without Skynet finding out.
Now, he could only hope John and his rescue team could get here before that Terminator patrol decided to search for him and Star down in the canyon.
Star had made three pipe bombs with what supplies he had brought along, then she merely sat against the cave wall, listening and waiting. He didn't want to distract her from her duty, but he also wanted to make sure she knew that he wouldn't let anything happen to her.
"We'll be fine," he whispered. The growing darkness of evening was no doubt making her tired, though she had refused to sleep, choosing instead to remain alert and on her silent patrol by his side. "Connor's coming to rescue us."
The Terminator is coming, she signed. It's patrolling down into the canyon.
Kyle's breath caught in his throat and he grabbed the pipe bomb from the floor and waited with his finger poised on the detonator button of the C4 package that was still sitting by the entrance.
Star's eyes grew wider and wider and soon Kyle was also able to make out the steady footsteps of the metal monster, drawing closer to their location.
The glowing eyes appeared at the cave entrance.
Kyle didn't give the Terminator time to fire. He threw the pipe bomb and pressed the detonator at the same time, throwing himself backwards and on top of Star to shield her from the C4 blast. He hadn't used much, but he could feel the heat of the flames burning at his back.
When he looked up and the smoke cleared, the Terminator was gone. Kyle wasn't sure if it had been destroyed and rolled down the canyon or if it had merely sustained damage and would be back. It would be best to destroy it now.
He clutched his plasma rifle to his chest and crept forward to the edge of the cave mouth. Before he could peek down into the canyon, the Terminator's silver shape rose in front of his eyes.
Kyle shrank backwards, yelping as the machine took a shaky step forward. The pipe bomb and C4 had damaged it, but it was far from incapacitated. The endo raised its own plasma rifle but before it could shoot, a female figure jumped between them and grabbed the endo, spinning and flinging it up against the cave wall. In the same fluid motion, she brought up her plasma rifle and accurately shot it in the chip side of its head. The inactive machine dropped to the ground, smoke rising from the hole in its skull.
Kyle was breathing hard, in shock. Obviously this woman was a Resistance fighter, but how had she been able to effortlessly throw the Terminator around like that?
He started to whisper, "How did you…"
The figure snapped her head around and Kyle felt the blood drain from his face.
"Allison?"
At first he couldn't believe his eyes. It wasn't possible. Allison was dead, Connor had said he'd held her dead body in his arms. So what was…
He heard another set of footsteps entering the cave, but he didn't even look to see who it was. Allison's eyes snapped toward the other figure and Kyle saw it – just for a split second.
He'd seen her eyes flash blue.
"No…" he whispered. "You're… you're…"
He reacted instinctively.
Kyle Reese yanked his plasma rifle up to his shoulder and pulled the trigger.
Next Week on Born to Fight: [Scientists work at creating a new liquid metal terminator] LOGAN: Have you thought anymore about what I said? MATT: I'll never become a Gray. I serve Skynet only because I am forced to. LOGAN: You still think that John Connor could actually come and save you… You shouldn't hold on to that false hope. MATT: Hope is all I have left. KYLE: (in the cave in Topanga Canyon) Have you heard any news of Derek? JOHN: I've just received intel that he's alive. KYLE: I have to go back there, back to Firebase.