There's a new terminator in town, something called the "triple 8", who seems to be like the normal exo-skeleton terminator in the first movie. They didn't say more about how this is distinguished from something like Cromartie or what its special/different abilities might be.
Triple 8 is going around killing all the people named Martin Bedell in the phone book, kinda like how in the first movie, terminator was killing all the women named Sarah Connor. Martin helps John start the resistance in the future, so I guess since they can't get to John, they'll go after Martin.
The first Martin Bedell has already been killed, so the group moves to the other two. They figure out which Martin Bedell they really need to protect, and Sarah reluctantly lets John go off with Derek to protect him. Sarah wants to protect John and keep him safe, but she also has to learn to let him go, so that he can develop the skills and leadership and character to become the John Connor that he's going to need to be.
Derek and John head off to the military academy where the real Martin Bedell is currently located. Derek says that he wants John to be enrolled, and the head of the academy agrees to let him try for a few weeks, but he also enlists Derek's help to be on staff temporarily. As a cadet, John actually meets Martin, and they strike up a friendship. Derek is a little unnerved by certain aspects of being at the academy, and when he's in front of a group of the cadets, he doesn't have much to say. However, when one of the cadets asks about his experience in war and asks how many kills he got and pretty much treats battle like a game, Derek gives him a serious dressing-down, describing the horrible and fatal realities of war.
Meanwhile, Triple 8 has moved onto the second Martin Bedell, who is a young boy. Sarah manages to save him in time, and she and Cameron hide him. Sarah has to reign in Cameron when Cameron is blunt to Marty about the truth behind what Triple 8 is and wants, and Cameron is a bit too forceful with Marty when he tries to call his mother. After Sarah gets Cameron to go a little easier on him, it was funny that Cameron still had Marty lifted by the shirt off the ground, and in her softer-voiced inflection, Cameron asks him, "Would you like a bedtime story?" to which Marty terrifiedly nods his head.
Triple 8 finally figures that he's at a dead end with Marty and heads to the third Martin Bedell. Derek and John set up a trap for him at the academy, and it was cool that while Sarah is playing mom to Marty and they're reading "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" together, the voice-over is done over the scenes of Triple 8 at the academy and the attacks on him. Oh, and Derek's and John's assumed last name at the academy was Baum. Triple 8 hones in on his target, Martin Bedell, but John gives him an even bigger target by presenting himself, distracting Triple 8 from killing Martin since killing John is a higher-priority directive. John manages to lure Triple 8 into a trap where John and Derek are able to disable and dispose of him in tar. John is later crushed when Derek reveals that in the future, Martin gave his life to save a truckful of prisoners which included John himself.
On a separate front, Ellison is still working for Catherine, and he is investigating the problem at the nuclear plant. He figures out that there are actually two machines and that they were fighting each other, and he also discovers that Sarah was involved somehow when he sees her in a picture taken at the local bar where the employees hung out. I'm not sure where this story is going, and I'm not all that interested at the moment. There was a side story about there being another person investigating, and Catherine needed to get rid of him. Yeah, I figured out pretty immediately that the hot girl hitting on him was actually her in disguise and that he was going to buy it.
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