| | Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson) Shirley Manson as Catherine Weaver | Gender: Female | | Occupation: Android Assassin | | * First appeared on September 08, 2008 in the episode Samson & Delilah. | | * This character was last seen on April 10, 2009 in the episode Born to Run. |
<p>The T-1001 is intensely protective of her "son", John Henry. She will do anything to protect him, including disregard the safety of her "daughter", Savannah Weaver. She also killed a large number of humans, to ensure John Henry's existence was a secret.</p><p>Weaver has not been adept at mimicking human emotions. Like other terminators, it has been unable to produce convincing smiles (e.g. the photo shoot) or relate to people (e.g. comment about butcher's paper).</p><p>Like the Cromartie Terminator, Catherine Weaver seems to express a slight sense of humor. This is displayed when she terminates Justin Tuck and, later, Mr. Nelson.</p><h3>Post-Judgment Day</h3><p>Under orders from John Connor, the USS <em>Jimmy Carter</em> was ordered deep into Skynet controlled territory to dock with an oil platform. They were to recover from that base a case for immediate delivery to the Resistance Headquarters at Seranno Point nuclear power plant.</p><p>While underway back to the United States, a group of soldiers went to a storage locker to examine the mysterious box that had been recovered. Although Queeg claimed to have been instructed by John Connor to do this, the crew did not trust him and so opened the box. Discovering a liquid-metal T-1001, Goodnow raised her firearm and was terminated. In the process, the Terminator took her appearance and escaped by slithering through an air vent.</p><p>Before Jesse Flores managed to leave the ship, which they are abandoning after Queeg is killed for refusing to comply with the crew's orders, the Goodnow Terminator delivers her message to Jesse, telling her that it is for John Connor. It is simply <em>The answer is "No".</em> Then the Terminator slithered away through the water. It is presumed that this T-1001 went back in time, possibly replaced Catherine Weaver to take her place to create an AI that could be sympathetic to humans, giving them an advantage against Skynet.</p><h3>Pre-Judgment Day</h3><p>At Zeira Corp headquarters, Catherine Weaver arranges to acquire The Turk from Walsh for $300,000. She then ominously calls a meeting of her department heads for later that evening.</p><p>During her meeting with Walsh, Weaver tells him exactly what makes The Turk so unique. She explains that The Turk's value is in its capriciousness, a singular trait amongst computers. Unlike most computers which display absolute obedience to the code which governs their operations, The Turk will occasionally disobey its programmer's orders, for no apparent reason. During this conversation, Weaver implies that the ability to disobey its code is a crucial step in the development of self-awareness and will in machines. Weaver herself, as well as Cameron, John Henry and Skynet have exhibited this ability to override existing directives in favor of new ones of their own choosing.</p><p>During Weaver's department head meeting, she announces her decision to pull key employees from each department to work on a brand-new "Babylon" division, whose work, she says, will "change the world".</p><p>After the meeting, two of Weaver's department heads, Matt Murch and Justin Tuck, discuss the Babylon-related changes in the company bathroom. After Matt departs, Justin proceeds to the urinal, while saying, "God, that bitch pisses me off." Then, he watches, stunned, as the urinal morphs into a silver, liquid-metal mass, from which Weaver emerges. At this point, the audience learns that Weaver isn't human; she is composed of a mimetic pollyalloy, apparently similar to that of the Series 1000 terminator from Terminator 2. Weaver, seemingly disgusted by her employee's disrespectful attitude, forms her finger into a metal spike, then uses it to impale Justin through the head, killing him instantly.</p><p>She is next seen in the following episode at a press conference, posing as Bradbury, a male representative of Automite Systems, who declares his company's intentions of taking over Seranno Point nuclear power plant. "He" announces the introduction of artificial intelligences to eradicate the possibility of human error during plant operations. After the press conference, we see "him" get into to a car, then morph back into Weaver's form before driving away.</p><p>Shortly thereafter, Weaver meets with FBI Agent James Ellison in her office to talk about the FBI massacre. She shows Ellison photographic evidence of an endoskeleton hand and chest piece involved in a plane crash five years ago (2002). She tells him that she knows that it was a robot that tried to kill John Connor in Red Valley, NM in 1999. Weaver also says that she knows that a robot was involved in the FBI massacre. She tells Ellison that she was working on reverse engineering the same "robot" technology with her "late husband" and that she wants to hire Ellison to find out about these robots and to even catch one for her company. Later in the episode, it is revealed that the T-1001 has maintained custody of Catherine Weaver's daughter, Savannah.</p><p>In the episode, "Goodbye to All That," Weaver learns from Ellison that due to the executive manager's interference, the Seranno Point Nuclear Power Plant will be closed down for inspection by the NRC until August 2009. Because she knows that the power plant is crucial to the Human Resistance success in the future, she takes action to ensure that the power plant remains operational. With the intention of seducing and killing the power plant's executive manager, Mr. Nelson, she changes her appearance, presumably to both avoid detection and to appear more like his "type". She proceeds to find him in a bar and lure him outside. After a very brief session of heavy petting (during which Nelson proves himself to be an embarrassingly inadequate lover), Weaver forms her tongue into a polyalloy weapon, slides it into his mouth and kills him, thereby ensuring that Seranno Point would remain open. At this point, the audience is unaware of Weaver's true allegiance and is led to believe that this killing is done for Skynet's sake.</p><p>During this episode, Ellison tells Weaver of his suspicion that the damage at the plant was caused by two machines, presumably terminators, that were fighting one another. Weaver's reaction to this information suggests that she may know that one of the machines was a reprogrammed one. As of Season 2, Episode 6, Weaver has no knowledge of Sarah Connor being in 2007.</p><p>During a photoshoot, Savannah refuses to participate, apparently terrified of her own mother, and one of the photographers suggests Dr. Sherman, a psychologist, for counseling. When Sherman comes over to ZeiraCorp (as a consultant), Weaver asks him to observe the same images the Turk was repeating over and over again. Sherman saw the Turk as asking "Why is a math book so sad", a child's riddle. Weaver then asks him to work for ZeiraCorp.</p><p>When Ellison was arrested, Weaver posed as a police detective to interrogate the eyewitness who saw The Ellison Terminator kill a man and steal his clothes immediately after he arrived in the present. After some coaxing, he got the man to admit that Ellison only killed the man after "materializing out of thin air in an energy bubble", a fact which he had omitted in his original statement. The judge therefore thought it was the fabrication of an obviously delusional man and Ellison was allowed to go. Weaver later killed the interrogator, presumably.</p><p>Ellison later brings Weaver the inactive body of a T-888 model, Cromartie, hoping to find a way to beat the terminators.</p><p>The developed Turk, John Henry, had accidentally killed Dr. Sherman. Ellison tells Weaver that they must teach the AI the difference between right and wrong. Weaver takes his advice into account -- by connecting John Henry to Cromartie's repaired body, acting as its voice. She tells Ellison to teach John Henry. Soon afterward John Henry determines that Weaver is not human.</p><p>To protect John Henry, Weaver kills the entire staff of a factory in the episode "The Good Wound", who appear to have been working on an early form of the airborne Hunter Killers shown in pretty much all Terminator movies to date. After disposing first of the overseer of the plant, then of almost all of the employees, she finishes by detonating explosives and thus destroying the plant. She sent an investigator to find the last survivor, but he survived.</p><p>In the Season Finale "Born to Run", Weaver protects Sarah from the terminator after Savannah. When Sarah escapes during a jailbreak, she and John meets with Weaver. Weaver revealed interesting knowledge about Skynet and that she was sent back to build an alternative to Skynet which would work to destroy it. Moments later Zeira Corp was attacked by the Prototype HK in an effort to destroy John Henry. The T-1001 was able to protect John Connor, Sarah Connor, and James Ellison from the destruction. They then went to find a powered down Cameron in John Henry's alcove and no sign of the prototype AI. Catherine deduced that John Henry had gone to the future and decided to follow him. John Connor went with her in an effort to find Cameron's chip and restore her leaving Sarah Connor and James Ellison behind. Interestingly, prior to departure, Weaver requested that Ellison pick up Savannah from school - showing some concern for the girl's safety.</p><p>Upon arriving in the future (time period unknown), Weaver's clothes were strangely gone, and Cameron's body was not with them (possibly because her metallic endoskeleton was exposed). She created clothes for herself while John snatched up a jacket. Suddenly, their presence is detected by Resistance fighter dogs. Weaver slips away while John is left to deal with Resistance fighters, who don't know who he is due to his displacement in the timeline.</p> |
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