fnmag,
No surprise on the season finale already coming up, if you had read the thread from the start, you would have seen that I posted they only had 9 episodes on tap.
Like js, I also liked the episode, at least they are integrating the FBI investigator on a human level rather than wasting time on endless police investigation and cop show type material.
I thought there was also an interesting theme of people becoming more like machines (John's uncle, wanting to kill without mercy while giving no-one his trust) while the machines are becoming more like people (Cameron's dancing).
Even the psychologist in the end was "infected" by the paranoia around him, becoming more like Sarah. The series is doing a great job with themes, exploring them one way then echoing them another way. Even the pleasant music during the dance was echoing the music from the Terminator's basement (in the future), where no doubt very unpleasant things were happening.
Still, the underlying "DNA" (for machines, programming) remains, with Cameron spending zero time or CPU cyles to worry about those 2 troubled Russian immigrants getting killed, after she completed her "mission" of acquiring the next clue to be followed.